![]() ![]() By “they did not work”, I mean that when I popped in the DVD and ran sudo /cdrom/setup.sh instead of giving me three options, one of which was to install the software, it launched right into creating a new software depot on the computer where I already had a software depot from which I had created the DVDs in the first place. I created the DVDs from the SAS software depot but they did not work. It took a few hours to download, which was a bit surprising to me, since we just had FiOS installed on the promise of speeding things up, but for once no one tripped over a cord and disconnected the computer, spelled coke on the keyboard or any of those other things that always seem to happen when you are right in the middle of something. I followed the instructions on the SAS install site and everything worked perfectly. The good news is downloading the download manager and installing the SAS software depot was a piece of cake. It was a bit of a dilemma at first, because our other six computers are Macs and Dennis equates Windows with the anti-Christ, but, after a few minutes thought, he installed Ubuntu and all has been well, barring a few arm-wrestling matches with the little one over whether she was going to get to use it for Club Penguin or he was going to be able to use it for programming. My husband received the computer for $100 in some raffle or something. This weekend I installed SAS on the computer in the living room that runs Linux. Then I deleted the virtual machine later when I needed space on that computer. I couldn’t remember how I did it except that I ended up literally throwing away the documentation and just using Google to figure it out. ![]() I had installed SAS on a Ubuntu operating system once before, on a virtual machine running on Virtual Box running on an older computer in my office that has Windows XP. It will just confuse you after this point and it doesn’t help anyway. ![]() Step 1: Read the documentation for some hints on how to download and install the download manager, and the SAS software depot (if you are the SAS administrator). Installing SAS for Linux – Step 2: Throw away the documentation ![]()
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