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When you download an Opmantek Application, the file will be called <product name>-<version>.run and your browser will likely prompt you regarding what to do with this '.run' file; you should tell it to Save the file. If you are installing the application onto a different system than the one where you downloaded the file, you'll have to use scp or some other file transfer method of your choice to transfer the .run file to the target system.
All Opmantek product releases from 16 June 2016 onwards include the installer in both pre-compiled and source form, to ensure that you can install the software on a system without Perl present. The source form of the installer is provided for diagnostic purposes; by default the self-extracting run file will start the pre-compiled installer version.
Starting the Installer
Starting the new self-extracting installer is trivial: you simply tell your shell to run it.
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