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• Upgrading to this Charon-PAR from an older version requires a license update (independent of license type used). Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update.
• Applicable to HASP licenses only: Charon-PAR version 3.0 and higher is incompatible with licenses of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-PAR 3.0 and higher. Charon-PAR/PA3 licenses for version 3.0 are not backward compatible for emulators running with version 2.x.

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• A set of RPM packages for installations on all supported platforms and environments.
• A marketplace AMI containing the base operating system and the preinstalled Charon-PAR software. At the time of writing, this format was planned for AWS and Azure. Please contact your Stromasys representative for details about availability on AWS and other cloud platforms. The Appendix of this document contains basic information about setting up a cloud instance.

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Charon-PAR is provided as a set of RPM-packages.The following table lists the required installation packages. The placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package, for example, . This set is different for versions before 3.0.10 and version 3.0.610 and later.Support for RHEL 9.x and derivatives was added in

Charon-PAR

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Versions 3.0.

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10 and Later

In version 3.0.10, Charon-PAR is provided as one self-extracting archive containing all the RPM packages:

charon-par-<version>.sh

Starting with version 3.0.11, Charon-PAR is provided as one self-extracting archive per Linux major version: one archive each for Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x.

• charon-par-<version>.el7.sh
• charon-par-<version>.el8.sh
• charon-par-<version>.el9.sh

To unpack the archive, perform the following steps:

• Go to the directory where the package is stored.
• Run the archive shell script: # sh <archive-name>
• Accept the EULA. To successfully unpack the archive, the end-user license agreement must be accepted.
• After this, the software packages making up the Charon-PAR kit will be extracted into a version-specific sub-directory of the current working directory of the user.

Example:

$ sh charon-par-3.0.11-22700-54a67939.el8.sh
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing Stromasys product packages installer  100%  
End User License Agreement for : STROMASYS SOFTWARE.

NOTICE TO USER ("LICENSEE", “YOU” or “YOUR”): THIS AGREEMENT GOVERNS

<lines removed>

Please confirm EULA (yes/no) > yes
EULA accepted
gpg: AES256.CFB encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase

$ ls charon-par-3.0.11-22700-54a67939
aksusbd-7.63-1.i386.rpm
aksusbd-8.13-1.x86_64.rpm
Charon_Idle_0.02.depot
charon-license-1.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
charon-license-certs-1.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
charon-license-hasp-1.2.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
charon-mtd-4.11-20406.el8.x86_64.rpm
charon-par-3.0.11-22700.54a67939.el8.x86_64.rpm
EULA.txt
xhpterm-free-3.0.11-22700.54a67939.el8.x86_64.rpm

Please note that gzip, md5sum, cksum, gpg, tar, and openssl are required to successfully unpack the RPMs.

The following table lists the installation packages available in the archives.

Placeholders:

• <version> - version of the package, e.g. 3.0.11-22700.54a67939
• <linux-version> - major version of the Linux host operating system, i.e., el7, el8, or el9

Please note: the VE license server RPM package is not part of the Charon-PAR set of RPM packages. Stromasys or your Stromasys VAR will provide you with the software or a download link. Prepackaged cloud marketplace images include the VE license server RPM (in /charon/storage).

Charon-PAR Versions 3.0.9 and Older

The following table lists the available installation packages.
Support for RHEL 9.x and derivatives was added in Charon-PAR version 3.0.8.

Placeholders:

• <version> - version of the package
• <linux-version> - major version of the Linux host operating system, i.e., el7, el8, or el9

Please note: the VE license server RPM package is not part of the Charon-PAR set of RPM packages. Stromasys or your Stromasys VAR will provide you with the software or a download link. Prepackaged cloud marketplace images include the VE license server RPM (in /charon/storage).

Important if there is more than one emulator product installed on the same Charon host system: the Charon-PAR version versions 3.0 up to 3.0 and higher emulator kits .9 contain the haspvlib library and the hasp_srm_view and hasp_update utilities. This means that there may be installation conflicts with other Charon emulator products on the same host systems. Such conflicts can be overcome either by not installing the conflicting modules of the other products (if possible), or by forcing the installation of the Charon-PAR kit. Please refer to the documentation of your host system (man rpm) in such cases and ensure that this will not negatively influence any other installed products. If you use the --force option for an installation, please uninstall older packages of the same product before.

Additional Information

Obtaining the Charon-PAR software:

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• For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA3 emulated system, a preinstalled MPE/iX 7.5 disk image (mpe75a.dsk.bz2) is required. This will be provided by Stromasys on demand.
• For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA9 emulated system, a HP-UX ISO is required. It must be provided by the customer.

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Sentinel Runtime RPM Installation

This package is a prerequisite mandatory for older Charon-PAR emulator versions. However, the runtime software installed is only needed for HASP licensing. It is not relevant for VE licensing. For later versions the installation is optional if HASP licensing is not used.

Important points:

• The aksusbd package version 7.63 requires the 32-bit glibc-library. On supported Linux distributions, this library is available through the standard repositories. The relevant package is glibc.i686 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. Unless version 7.63 is needed to solve a specific problem, aksusbd version 8.13 which does not have this limitation should be used.
• Normally, the aksusbd package installation with yum or dnf installs the 32-bit glibc and other dependency automatically (provided package repositories are available). Red Hat Enterprise must be registered to access the Red Hat repositories, or the installation CD must be mounted. Should the Charon host system not have access to the Internet, please refer to How to install the glibc.i686 package without an Internet connection for further information.
• When installing the aksusbd package version 8.13 in some CentOS 7.x environments it was observed that the aksusbd service did not start automatically after a new installation or an upgrade. The following error was displayed during the installation: Failed to restart aksusbd.service: Access denied. If this happens, uninstall the aksusbd package and reboot the system. After rebooting the system, re-install the package. The cause of this sporadic problem has not yet been identified.

The aksusbd package installs the programs aksusbd and hasplmd in /usr/sbin.

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The example below shows the installation of the aksusbd package (version 8.13):

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