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All Opmantek products |
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make use of an interactive installer program |
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that greatly simplifies both initial installation AND upgrading an existing installation. |
installations and upgrades.
This document explains the most essential installer features.
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Installation of Opmantek Applications
Prerequisites
- With the exception of Open-AudIT, which can be installed on Windows Server or Linux, all Opmantek applications are available for Linux 64-bit systems only.
Redhat/CentOS6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 10 and newer are supported (basically anything running glibc 2.3 and up). - The latest versions of our applications can be found at : https://opmantek.com/network-tools-download/
- You To run the installer you need superuser/root access on the system in question.
- Please note that as of Feb 2017, all Opmantek applications require that
/tmpis mounted with execute permissions (i.e. mounted without thenoexecmount flag).
See below for an alternate procedure if your/tmpis non-executable.
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In the past our applications were provided in the form of a compressed tar file, which required some manual steps for unpacking and installer invocation.
As of February 2016 we've switched to a self-extracting download format which make this aspect much more user-friendly.
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.
When you download an Opmantek Application, the 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.
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As a best practice, Opmantek recommends you create a dedicated directory, perhaps named "installs" to download and run the installer from. If you are using the Opmantek VM we recommend creating this folder in /data/installs/ |
Starting the Installer
Starting the new self-extracting installer is trivial: you simply tell your shell to run it.
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