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SAS Software
Depot is a file system that consists of a collection
of SAS installation files that represents one or more orders. The
depot is organized in a specific format that is meaningful to the
SAS Deployment Wizard, which is the tool that is used to install and
initially configure SAS. The depot contains the SAS Deployment Wizard
executable, one or more deployment plans, SAS installation data files,
order data, and product data.
A SAS Software Depot
is designed to contain your initial SAS 9.3 software order and additional
orders that you make in the future. When you download your additional
order to your pre-existing software depot, you download only those
products that you do not already have. If you are downloading an additional
order and creating a new software depot, then your download time could
be longer.
If you decide that you
want to create a new SAS Software Depot for your new software order,
you also run the SAS Download Manager. However, first make sure that
you have fulfilled the necessary requirements described in
Prerequisites for Creating a SAS Software Depot.