Installing on Linux

SSH Tectia Client for Linux platforms is supplied in RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) binary packages. The RPMs are available for Red Hat and SUSE Linux running on Intel x86 (i386), on IBM POWER (ppc64pseries), and on IBM S/390 or zSeries (s390x) platforms. The package for the x86 architecture is compatible also with the 64-bit versions of Red Hat and SUSE Linux running on x86-64 platforms. The IBM Linux packages are only available with SSH Tectia Client (F).

On the installation CD-ROM, the installation packages for Linux are located in the /install/linux/ directory. Two packages are required: one for common components of SSH Tectia Client and Server, and another for specific components of SSH Tectia Client. With SSH Tectia Client (F) you may choose to install either the full client package or the client package without sshg3.

With SSH Tectia Client (F), an additional SDK package is available on Intel x86 platforms. It contains the file transfer APIs in C and Java.

To install SSH Tectia Client on Linux, do the following:

Install the packages with root privileges:
```
# rpm -Uvh ssh-tectia-common-<ver>.<arch>.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ssh-tectia-client-<ver>.<arch>.rpm
```
In the commands, <ver> is the current package version of SSH Tectia Client (for example, 5.0.0.777) and <arch> is the platform architecture (i386, ppc64pseries, or s390x).
(Optional with SSH Tectia Client (F)) If you do not want to install the sshg3 command, use the client-ft-only package instead of the client package:
```
# rpm -Uvh ssh-tectia-client-ft-only-<ver>.<arch>.rpm
```
(Optional with SSH Tectia Client (F) on x86.) Install the SDK package with root privileges:
```
# rpm -Uvh ssh-tectia-sdk-<ver>.i386.rpm
```
(Not necessary in "third-digit" maintenance updates) Copy the license file to the /etc/ssh2/licenses directory. See Licensing.