The Xentara Licence Server v1.0
User Manual
Linux
See also
Debian package management in the Debian Reference at www.debian.org
Note
The user installing the Xentara licence server needs the privileges necessary to execute the sudo(8) command. This is usually accomplished by adding the user to the sudo user group. This can only be done by the root user, or by another user that already has sudo access.

Under Linux, the Xentara licence server is distributed using aptitude, the standard Debian package manager. The Xentara licence server can either be installed using the Xentara installer script, or manually using the apt(8) command line utility.

The Xentara licence server is available for the following Debian architectures:

amd64
64 bit x86 systems (Intel/AMD)
arm64
64 bit ARM systems (ARMv8-A with AArch64)
armhf
32 bit ARM systems with harware floating point support (ARMv7-A with VFPv3)
armel
32 bit ARM systems without harware floating point support (ARMv5T and ARMv6)

Installing the Xentara Licence Server Using the Installer Script

The easiest way to install the Xentara licence server under Linux is using the Xentara Installer script, which can be downloaded under https://download.xentara.io/Linux/xentara-installer.sh. To install Xentara using the installer script, proceed as follows:

  1. Download the installer script from https://download.xentara.io/Linux
  2. Open a terminal and change to the directory into which you downloaded the installer script using cd.
  3. Make the installer script executable be entering the command chmod a+x xentara-installer.sh.
  4. Run the script using ./xentara-installer.sh --licence-server
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions

The installer script will add the Xentara repository and the signing key to the aptitude configuration, and install the Xentara licence server using apt(8).

Once Xentara has been installed, you can update or remove the Xentara licence server package using the apt(8) tool manually.

Manually Configuring the Xentara Aptitude Repository

See also
Manually Configuring the Xentara Aptitude Repository in the Xentara user manual

You can also manually configure aptitude to use the Xentara repository. Simply follow the instructions listed in the Xentara user manual, but run the command apt install xentara-licence-server instead of apt install xentara in the last step.