Syntext Serna Free 4.3 Installation Guide

System Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows™ platforms: Windows 2000, XP, Vista

  • Linux platforms: Fedora Core 6 or higher, SUSE Linux 10, Ubuntu 6.0.4 or higher, Kubuntu 8.0.4, XUbuntu 8.0.4, Mandriva 2006, Mandriva 2007

  • Mac OS X: version 10.4 or higher

  • Solaris: version 8 (2/04) SPARC

  • RAM: 512 MB

  • Processor: Pentium II, 350MHz or higher for i386; G4 or higher for Apple Macintosh

  • Minimum disk space: 150 MB

Guidelines for Microsoft Windows™

Note:

Make sure you have administrator rights on your workstation.

  1. Run Serna installer, and follow the instructions.

  2. When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.

  3. With the Browse... button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.

  4. If you do not want Serna to copy the license certificate to the Serna configuration directory, then Serna will search for it in the path you provide.

  5. Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.

Note:

Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_LOGIN\.serna- <VERSION>.

Important:

If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose Tools > Preferences > General tab, and click the Reset to Factory Settings button.

Silent Installation

Serna uses Inno Setup as Windows installer. You can use the silent installation feature of Inno Setup.

To silently install Serna with default parameters, use the following switches for the Serna installer:
  • /silent - Instructs Setup to be silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is.
  • /verysilent - Instructs Setup to be very silent. When Setup is very silent the installation progress window is not displayed.

If you want to specify non-default install parameters in silent mode, the Serna installer can record your answers so that they can be replayed for silent installations in future.

For more information about Inno Setup options, see: http://www.appdeploy.com/tips/detail.asp?id=113.

Guidelines for Mac OS X

Note:

Make sure you have administrator rights on your workstation.

  1. In Finder double-click the Serna package.

  2. Click serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.dmg in the Finder side bar.

  3. Double-click serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.pkg and follow the installation instructions.

  4. When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.

  5. With the Browse... button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.

  6. If you do not want Serna to copy the license certificate to the Serna configuration directory, then Serna will search for it in the path you provide.

  7. Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.

Note:

Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.

Important:

If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose Tools > Preferences > General tab, and click the Reset to Factory Settings button.

Guidelines for Linux

Serna for Linux is available as a RedHat RPM package, and as a tgz archive.

Important:

We recommend that you use True Type fonts under Unix. Correct symbol representation critically depends on what fonts are installed on your workstation.

Important:

To run Serna, type at a prompt: serna- <VERSION>. Do not try to run serna- <VERSION>.bin.

RPM Installation

  1. Log in as: root

  2. To install the Serna package, type: rpm -i serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.rpm, where serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.rpm is the Serna RPM distribution.

    Warning:

    Because of a bug in RPM version 4.1.X (included with the RedHat 8.0 distribution), you will need the following workaround if you are using that software.

    Before executing the above command, type (for bash):

    export RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local

    or for tcsh:

    setenv RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX /usr/local
  3. Log out of root .

  4. When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.

  5. With the Browse... button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.

  6. If you do not want Serna to copy the license certificate to the Serna configuration directory, then Serna will search for it in the path you provide.

  7. Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.

Note:

Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.

Important:

If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose Tools > Preferences > General tab, and click the Reset to Factory Settings button.

Installation from Tgz Archive

  1. Log in as: root.

  2. Unpack archive: tar xvfz serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.tgz

  3. Change directory to the newly created: cd serna

  4. Run installation script: ./install.sh

  5. Provide installation path, or merely hit Enter if /usr/local is OK for you.

  6. Log out of root.

  7. When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.

  8. With the Browse... button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.

  9. If you do not want Serna to copy the license certificate to the Serna configuration directory, then Serna will search for it in the path you provide.

  10. Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.

Note:

Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.

Important:

If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose Tools > Preferences > General tab, and click the Reset to Factory Settings button.

Guidelines for Solaris

Serna for Solaris is available as a Solaris native package.

To install Serna on Solaris:

  1. Log in as: root

  2. Unpack Serna installation package: gunzip -d serna-<VERSION>-<YYYYMMDD>-sol8-sparc-local.gz.

  3. Install the Serna package: pkgadd -d serna-<VERSION>-<YYYYMMDD>-sol8-sparc-local.

  4. Log out of root .

  5. When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.

  6. With the Browse... button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.

  7. If you do not want Serna to copy the license certificate to the Serna configuration directory, then Serna will search for it in the path you provide.

  8. Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.

Important:

To run Serna, type at a prompt: serna- <VERSION> or serna. Do not try to run serna- <VERSION>.bin.

Note:

Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.

Important:

If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose Tools > Preferences > General tab, and click the Reset to Factory Settings button.

Important:

We recommend that you use True Type fonts under Unix. Correct symbol representation critically depends on what fonts are installed on your workstation.