Downloading (ESD) or building your software depot from DVDs (SAS^® 9.1.3 and later)

In order to create a successful SAS software depot on UNIX, the most reliable method is to build it directly on the UNIX server. That is, if you are performing an electronic software download (ESD), download the depot directly to the UNIX server using the sas installation userid. If you are using physical media (CDs or DVDs), use it to build the depot directly on the UNIX server using the sas installation userid.

It is possible to download the software depot to Windows first, but this method creates several issues that you will need to address:

• If you build the software depot using Windows, then you need to ftp the depot to the UNIX server using binary mode. WinSCP is an open source ftp client that can be downloaded at no cost, and it has worked successfully for this purpose.
  Be sure to select binary as the transfer mode.
• Ensure that the ftp client preserves the case of the file names.
• Once the software depot has been moved to the UNIX server, you must perform a recursive chmod and recursive chown to make sure the depot is owned by the sas installation userid and that it has the correct permissions. If the ownership and permissions are not correct, the installation process is likely to hang. There may or may not be an error message.

  Here is an example of the commands:

   cd /your/software/depot/directory
   chmod -R 755 .
   chown -R sas:sasgroup . 

where /your/software/depot/directory is the fully qualified path of your software depot, and sas:sasgroup is the name of your sas installation userid followed by a colon (:) and the name of your sas installation group.

Recommendations for retaining your depot for SAS^® 9.2 and later

You should retain your software depot because it will be needed when you apply maintenance to your SAS installation.

If you receive a new order containing additional products or maintenance, download that new order to the same location as your original order. By doing so, only the differences (delta) between the new order and the original order will be downloaded.

If you choose to build your software depot on Windows, you will need to add any updates/orders (new products, maintenance, etc.) to that depot on Windows. You must then move the entire new depot to the UNIX server and replace the existing depot on the UNIX server. That is, you must move the entire new depot to the UNIX server every time there is an update.