This section describes how to upgrade the Charon-PAR software to a new version. It covers the following points:
Important information for software upgrades:
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 2.0 and higher is incompatible with licenses of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-PAR 2.0 and higher. Software licenses may have to be newly created from a fingerprint file during an upgrade from versions before Charon-PAR 1.10. Charon-PAR/PA3 licenses for version 2.1 are not backward compatible for emulators running with version 2.0.
Charon-PAR Software Packages Overview
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):
Package | Description |
|---|---|
| aksusbd-<version>.i386.rpm | Sentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-PAR software |
| charon-license-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | License related libraries and utilities |
| charon-mtd-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR tape utility |
| charon-par-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR emulator executable, template configuration files for different supported hardware models |
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. They will provide the download information or the software packages to you.
Upgrade Commands Overview
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.) |
(Older versions may need localupdate instead of update for local packages; newer versions use local operation if package name is a file name.) |
| Command to upgrade individual local packages | # rpm -U </path/to/package> |
Upgrading the Charon-PAR Software
To install the Charon-PAR packages perform the following steps:
Step | Command | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root"). | |
| 2 | Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored. | # |
| 3 | Update the Charon-PAR packages. | #
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