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Please note

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  • Upgrading to this Charon-PAR from an older version requires a license update. Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update.
  • Charon-PAR version

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  • 3.0.0 and higher is

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  • incompatible

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  • with

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  • licenses of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-PAR

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  • 3.0.0 and higher.

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  • Charon-PAR licenses of version 2.1.0 are not compatible with emulators running Charon-PAR version 2.0.0.

Charon-PAR Software Packages Overview

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The following table lists the required installation packages (the placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package):

Package
Description
aksusbd-<version>.i386.rpmSentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-PAR software
charon-
license
mtd-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm
License related libraries and utilities
Charon-PAR tape utility
charon-
mtd
par-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR
tape utilityhpa
emulator executable, template configuration files for different supported hardware models, etc.; for Linux 7.x
charon-par-<version>.el8.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR emulator executable, template configuration files for different supported hardware models, etc.; for Linux 8.x


Obtaining the Charon-PAR software:

The software can be downloaded from the Stromasys fileserver. If required, please contact your Stromasys representative or your Stromasys VAR partner. They will provide the download information or the software packages to you.

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The following table provides an overview of the upgrade commands for the supported host operating systems. For details, please refer to the relevant man-pages on Linux. The table only lists command-line options for Linux. There are also graphical tools. To describe all of them is outside the scope of this document.

Upgrade Options
Description
Package manager (uses repositories, takes care of dependencies, etc.)

# yum update <package-name>(Older versions may need localupdate instead of update for local packages; newer versions use local operation if package name is a file name.)

On Linux 8.x replace yum with dnf.

Command to upgrade individual local packages# rpm -U </path/to/package>

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To install the Charon-PAR packages perform the following steps:



Step
Command
1Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root").
2Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored.

cd <path-to-kits-dir>

3Update the Charon-PAR packages.

# yum update update *.rpm (Linux 7.x)

# dnf update *.rpm (Linux 8.x)

or

# rpm -U *.rpm


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