Choosing a Standalone FLEXlm Version

Etnus supplies a stand-alone version of the version 6.1 FLEXlm license manager. The following table indicates the supported platforms and the tar file associated with each.

Distribution Name	File Size	FLEXlm license manager for ...
flexlm-6.1-alpha.tar.Z	1.0 MB	Compaq Tru64 UNIX 4.0B
flexlm-6.1-hp800.tar.Z	0.8 MB	HP-UX
flexlm-6.1-mips64-irix6.tar.Z	0.9 MB	IRIX 6.2
flexlm-6.1-rs6000.tar.Z	0.7 MB	RS/6000 AIX 4.2.1
flexlm-6.1-sun5.tar.Z	0.9 MB	SPARC SunOS 5.5.1
flexlm-6.1-i386-linux.tar.Z	0.7 MB	RedHat Linux 5.2
flexlm-6.1-alpha-linux.tar.z	0.9 MB	Compaq Alpha Linux

Unpacking FLEXlm

Unpack the FLEXlm tar files using the uncompress and tar commands. For best security, you should unpack the archive as super-user (root).

By default, the tar command creates a toolworks directory and copies the FLEXlm files into it. For example, use the following commands install the FLEXlm files for the SPARC SunOS 5 into the /usr/local/toolworks directory. (Before entering these commands, the su shell command to become the root user.)

cd /usr/local
uncompress < /home/bob/flexlm-6.1-sun5.tar.Z | tar xpf -

These commands create the /usr/local/toolworks directory and copy the SunOS 5 FLEXlm license manager files into the flexlm-6.1 subdirectory,. The files are identical to those supplied with TotalView.

These instructions provide only basic information on installing the FLEXlm license manager. For more information, see:

man Pages

The man pages for the FLEXlm license manager and its support utilities are installed in flexlm-6.1/man.

User Guide

An HTML version of the FLEXlm End-User Manual is installed in flexlm-6.1/doc/flexuser.

GLOBEtrotter Web Site

FLEXlm is a product of GLOBEtrotter Software Incorporated. Their Web site at www.globetrotter.com contains additional information about FLEXlm as well as utilities that can help you manager your license server.