Promax Installation Procedure

1. Make sure that all the packages required are installed in your Linux system �e.g
openmotif, libf2c, readline etc ...� for redhat linux 5 refer to release notes for
more info.

2. copy the Promax setup file in your system. For example make directory data and
copy setup file in this directory.

3. go to directory where you copy the setup file and run following command before
installation
chmod +x setup.bin (setup.bin is promax setup file)

4. run following command for installation

./setup.bin

5. In this example I'm installing ProMAX in "/apps".you have to change this path to
the path you used to install promax in your installation.

6. Put license_R500.dat into �/etc� (rename it into license.dat)

7. Edit �etc/hosts� with

127.0.0.1 nexus localhost.localdomain localhost

::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localdomain6

Note: You can use your host name but for this you should change host name in
license file with your host name.

8. In etc/services add

promax 1525/tcp
lgc_pd 3006/tcp pd

9. (optional)in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf make

DisAllow TCP=false

10. Create directory /apps/logs with mkdir command and then run chmod -R 700 logs

11. Create directory /scratch with mkdir command and then run chmod -R 700 scratch

12. Add the following lines to your .bashrc file (on root type command ls �a it
will show .bashrc file. Use gedit to edit this file)

export PROMAX_HOME=/apps/ProMAX

export PROMAX_DATA_HOME=/apps/data

PROMAX_SCRATCH_HOME=$PROMAX_HOME/scratch

Export LM_LICENSE_FILE=/etc/license.dat

alias promax='$PROMAX_HOME/port/bin/Promax &'

alias promax3d='$PROMAX_HOME/port/bin/Promax -o 3d &'

alias promaxvsp='$PROMAX_HOME/port/bin/Promax -o vsp &'

alias promax4d='$PROMAX_HOME/port/bin/Promax -o 4d &'

13. add the following lines at the end of you �/etc/rc.local� file

/apps/ProMAX/linux/bin/flexlm/lmgrd -c /etc/license.dat > /apps/logs/license.

14. restart system

15. run command in terminal �promax�

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