Install SAS on Ubuntu

[useResa]

Forgive my ignorance, but my U offers SAS for windows (not linux) at a deep discount to students. I'd like to take advantage of this, but I don't/won't have windows. Do the install disks for the windows version work within ubuntu (8.04)? Is it as simple as putting them in the drive and following the cues or is there some trick to getting this to work?
thanks

No sorry ... the Windows disks won't work in Linux.
There are specific Linux installation disks.

BTW: Also the license code (setinit) is platform dependend. So running a Windows license on a Linux platform will also not work.

[mbw]

Assuming you have paid for SAS and have a valid license that gets you in to their download center.... If you can get your SAS for Linux entitlement downloaded into a "SAS Software Depot" folder on a windows machine, then copy that over to an UBUNTU box, you can make it work.

Some notes for Ubuntu HH 8.04 Hardy Heron:

-Copied sas software depot over to Ubuntu

-Problems with Dash shell... make sure BASH shell is the default:


root@union:/bin# ls -ls /bin/sh

0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-08-29 06:58 /bin/sh -> bash

- Make sure the FULL PATH of the location of your SAS install files includes NO SPACES!!!!

(This means that if you copy over the "SAS Software Depot" folder from Windows after you download it with the windows-only-SAS-download tools (Thanks, SAS) - you'll need to rename that directory to "SAS_SW_DEP" or something without spaces)

For some reason, the execute "X" bit isnt getting set on scripts that are generated.... so often I had to manually set the "x" bit (chmod +x scriptname) and "retry" the install or hand-run the scripts.

for instance, in the last lines of the setup.sh script in the root of the sw depot folder, I added the chmod +x line

# Run the command
chmod +x "$templocation/$launch"

exec "$templocation/$launch" "$@" -startuplocation "$startuplocation" -templocat
ion "$templocation" 1>> "$logfile" 2>&1

exit $?


man this is a mess.....

I got it working tho.

-Matt

[useResa]

Assuming you have paid for SAS and have a valid license that gets you in to their download center.... If you can get your SAS for Linux entitlement downloaded into a "SAS Software Depot" folder on a windows machine, then copy that over to an UBUNTU box, you can make it work.

What SAS Version are you talking about here? I thought that only as of release 9.2 the software has become available from the download center.

BTW: Thanks for posting your experiences.

[AlfredoR]

Hi everyone. I would really appreciate any help in regards
to installing SAS 9.2 in Ubuntu. I have installed the SAS deployment in
my home directory and once I ran the deployment wizard and select install application it starts running but when is installing the SAS foundation
it gives me this error message not allowing me to continue I would appreciate any help on this.

/bin/sh: Illegal option -p

[Zimmer]

I suggest a good long read of post #22 above ... and trying following the tips there...

[OldDirtyTurtle]

Well, I ordered the DVD media and license for SAS 9.2 64-bit on Linux. I should have the discs in a few days and I'll install as soon as my new laptop is ordered and shipped (come on System 76 - let's go on the Serval!).

Will report back here with details after running a few archived SAS codes.

[useResa]

Will report back here with details after running a few archived SAS codes.

Please do. Looking forward to feedback about the installation of SAS 9.2 in Linux

[Rorke]

I haven't used SAS since on an IBM mainframe in 1996. I really want to get into using it commercially again. Can anyone recommend a (free) method of installing a demo or tutorial on my Ubuntu box? Or is there an Open Source equivalent that the experience of which would stand up in a job interview?
Also, is SPSS better to learn - I've never used it.

[scholzilla]

I would recommend using R instead. It's free, open source, and powerful. I'm only learning SAS because I have to. If you google "R" it's the first thing that comes up.

[Rorke]

OK - I'd found 'R'.
I still need another look at it, but I got this:
'
W: Failed to fetch http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/lin...dy/Packages.gz 301 Moved Permanently
'