SAS 9.4 Install Instructions for Linux

These are instructions for installing SAS 9.4 for Linux 64-bit from the zip archive file named SAS94Linux.zip, which is available via the VCU Technology Services SAS Linux download website.

Please note:

Please refer to the system requirements for SAS® 9.4 Foundation for Linux for x64.
The SAS94Linux.zip file currently available for download (as of Novermber 20, 2020) will install SAS version 9.4 TS1M7, Rev. 940_20w39.
If you need assistance, please contact the IT Support Center (828-2227, itsc@vcu.edu).
If possible, disable your anti-virus software before installation (and remember to re-enable it afterward).
The VCU SAS license includes SAS e-Learning modules. To learn SAS, see: go.vcu.edu/saslearn
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Additional SAS resources are available.

To install SAS:

Unzip the SAS94Linux.zip file into an EMPTY folder.
After the files are extracted, navigate (cd) to that folder. This folder and its contents are known as a SAS software depot.
Before installation, if desired you can run the SAS depot checker program to test the integrity of the extracted depot. To do so, launch the utilities/depotchecker/SASDepotCheck.sh program, that is contained in the depot, and, when prompted, provide the path to your depot. When the checker completes, examine the brief report it produces to ensure that no problems were found.
Before installation, you are strongly encouraged to download into the depot any hot fixes that SAS has recently made available. These repair any known problems ("bugs") in the SAS software. To do so, launch the setup.sh program, found in the depot's root folder. On the first screen, select Manage this SAS Software Depot, and on the next screen select Retrieve Hot Fixes. (If you run the depot checker, do that before retrieving hot fixes, because the checker will report any new hot fix files as being problems.)
Follow the installation steps found at Install and Configure SAS. But please note:
- That site shows a few additional screens that you will not see during your installation. You may ignore them.
- Remember the path of the SAS Home directory that you specify (seen in step 6 at that site). You will need to know that path later when you launch SAS (see below).
- As you progress through the installation screens, we recommend that you take the default choices that are in your screens, unless you have a reason to do otherwise. In particular:
  - IF the Select SAS/ACCESS Products to Configure screen is displayed (shown in step 12 at that site), we recommend that you NOT select the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle checkbox.
  - IF the Configure SAS Studio Basic screen is displayed (shown in step 14 at that site), do NOT select that checkbox.

After installation:

If desired, you can run a couple of easy install validation tests. In the SAS 9.4 Qualification Tools Guide, see the SAS Installation Qualification Tool (pages 3-4), and the SAS Operational Qualification Tool (pages 7-8). You can also run the JAVAINFO procedure.
Immediately after installation and every few weeks or months, you are encouraged to check for and install any hot fixes that have become available for SAS 9.4. For more information, please see the Applying Hot Fixes after the Installation section on page 30 of the SAS® Deployment Wizard and SAS® Deployment Manager 9.4: User’s Guide. Note that downloading hot fixes into the SAS depot prior to installation, as noted above, might not obtain all required hot fixes, as some needed hot fixes can only be identified after installation.
A tuning guide from Red Hat, detailing how to obtain optimal performance with SAS 9.4 in RHEL environments, is available:
Optimizing SAS^® on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 & 7

To launch SAS 9.4, execute this program file:

/usr/local/SASHome/SASFoundation/9.4/sas

This assumes that you chose the default location for the 'SASHome' directory (/usr/local/SASHome) during installation.

This article was updated: 11/19/2020

SAS Linux Renewal Instructions

You have chosen to download the SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux Renewal (called a "setinit" or "SID file") to extend a SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux license through September 28, 2021 on an existing SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux installation.

To apply the SAS 9.4 Renewal to an EXISTING SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux installation:

1. It is recommended that the same identity that was used to install the software is used to renew the license.

2. Stop all running SAS processes.

3. Run SAS Setup from !SASROOT/sassetup. Make sure you have the appropriate privilege to update files in SASROOT.

4. Select Run Setup Utilities from the SAS Setup Primary Menu.

5. Select Renew SAS Software.

6. Specify the location where you stored your SID file (SAS94Linux64WrkstnExp06302021tr.txt) when prompted.

7. Your SID file is applied immediately. SAS Setup will report if the task was completed successfully or not. If errors occur, a message is displayed indicating the log files you should check. If the SAS installation data applies successfully, you can enter Q to quit SAS Setup and run the SAS System normally.

This downloaded SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux Renewal SID File will extend the license of SAS 9.4 64-Bit Linux until June 30, 2021 with a 90 day grace period through September 28, 2021.

Each release of SAS has a unique renewal setinit. If you are running an earlier version of SAS for Linux, you may contact the IT Support Center (828-8227) to obtain a setinit for the version of SAS that is installed on your system(s). you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest release.

SAS Institute requires that a license renewal authorization code be applied each year. If you are still at VCU, you will be notified by email when future annual license authorization codes (called setinits) are available.

Licenses for additional installs must be registered at:
  https://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/wss/software/sw_download.asp

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When you leave VCU, you must immediately uninstall ALL copies of this software from any non-VCU owned computers on which you had installed it or authorized its installation.

Because of changing federal regulations regarding exporting software outside the USA, before you transfer any VCU licensed software outside the USA, you are required to contact VCU Technology Services to obtain current regulations. Note: Sophos Anti-Virus is an exception - it may be downloaded and used in any country.

Violation of this license may result in civil or criminal legal actions, as well as University disciplinary actions.

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For assistance with this software product or if you have any questions regarding this message, please contact the IT Support Center:

Phone: 828-2227
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