SOFiE Unix/Linux Installation

Installation

1. Visit www.sofie.lu and click on "Installation":
   
   


2. Select the Unix SOFiE package and enter your User-Id and Password to start the download (TAR file):
   
   
   
   Notice:
   If you don’t have your login data, please check the SOFiE subscription procedure.


3. Copy the TAR file to its destination, and execute the UNTAR utility with the instruction:
   
   uncompress sofie.verxyz.tar.z
tar -xvf sofie.verxyz.tar
   
4. The following components have been installed:
   
   
   • The latest JRE [TM] supported by SOFiE (Please refer to www.sofie.lu for the latest version.)
   • The SOFiE program
5. Update SOFiE with the "upd_sofie.ksh" script.
6. Start SOFiE using the "run_gui.ksh" script.

Post Installation Tasks

SOFiE Upgrade notes

• Please update your "upd_sofie.ksh" script with the new script
• Replace the old lib folder by the new one

SOFiE Installation Notes:

• The java executable has to be in the PATH.
• Copy the "US_export_policy.jar" and "local_policy.jar" files to the "$JAVA_HOME/lib/security" folder to get strong crypto support or download the files from Sun.
• Copy the "charsets.jar" file to the "$JAVA_HOME/lib" folder to get EBCDIC support
• If you want to use JavaWebStart under Unix/Linux with SOFiE, add the "IAIK.cer" and "JCE.cer" certificates to the JavaWebSart Certificate Store
• Export the correct DISPLAY variable
• Run SOFiE with the shell "run_gui.ksh" under ksh. When SOFiE is launched you arrive to the login screen.
• The script "bin/upd_sofie.ksh" can be used if you have wget installed to update the jar files in the lib directory