Step One: Complete the Pre-Installation Checklist

Before you continue, complete all of the tasks listed on the pre-installation checklist:
Pre-Installation Checklist
Task
Description
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Make sure that your machine meets all system requirements.
Review the SAS system requirement that is appropriate for your operating system available. See http://support.sas.com/resources/sysreq/index.html.
For example, the machine from which you are downloading the SAS installation software must have the following:
  • Internet access
    Your machine must access the SAS download website.
  • a windowing environment
    Make sure that a windowing environment such as the Common Desktop Environment or X11 is installed.
  • certain UNIX packages and libraries
  • adequate disk space
    Just before creating a depot, the SAS Download Manager presents you with an estimate of the amount of disk space required for your download.
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Check for new hot fixes.
Critical hot fixes that were released after the current maintenance release are automatically installed when you run the SAS Deployment Wizard. Additional hot fixes might be available for your products. To determine whether there are additional hot fixes for your products, see http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/hotfix.html.
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Ensure that your operating system supports the version of SAS that you are preparing to install.
SAS 9.4 Foundation and related software can run on specific versions of the UNIX operating system. To find out if your machine supports the current release, go to the Supported Operating Systems page at http://support.sas.com/supportos/list.
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Create a SAS Installer user account on your machine.
Always use the SAS Installer user (for example, sas) to deploy SAS and to apply future hot fixes, updates, and product add-ons.
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Create an operating system group on your machine.
This operating system group (for example, sasgroup) should be the primary group for the SAS Installer user.
Members of this group are given access to certain directories and files that are created by the SAS Deployment Wizard (the program used to install and configure SAS).
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Create a SAS directory on your machine.
SAS requires a location on your machine where the following can be stored:
  • The SAS Download Manager (the program used to download SAS installation files)
  • Downloaded SAS installation files (referred to as a SAS Software Depot)
  • SAS software installation
SAS recommends that you designate one directory to serve as a parent for three subdirectories. These subdirectories contain each piece of SAS software. Here is an example: 
/opt/sas9.4/
           dlm/
           depot/
           install/
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Make sure that the SAS directory meets all requirements.
The SAS directory must meet these requirements:
  • Allow the SAS Installer user Read, Write, and Execute permissions.
  • The mounted file system that contains the SAS directory must permit execution of binaries. (The -noexec option must not be set.)
  • The SAS directory and its children do not contain whitespace characters or special characters in their names.
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Have sudo or root user access to your machine.
SAS provides a script (setuid.sh) with which to set certain SAS installation files with setuid permissions and root ownership. The setuid.sh script must be run as root in order to complete successfully.
For more information, see Deploying SAS Foundation.
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Decide which languages your SAS 9.4 products must support.
The Select Language Support page of the SAS Deployment Wizard enables you to select all languages that your SAS 9.4 products support. By default, all supported languages are selected. To save download time and disk space, you should select only the languages that you plan to use.
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Decide which locale (or regional) setting to use and whether to configure your machine as a Unicode server.
The Select Regional Settings page of the SAS Deployment Wizard enables you to select the locale for your SAS software.
The locale of your operating system must match the locale that you plan to select during installation. The locale setting controls how SAS 9.4 formats text, numbers, currencies, date-time formats, and data (sorting) in the user interface.
The Select Regional Settings page of the SAS Deployment Wizard also enables you to configure your machine as a Unicode server. Unicode is useful if your deployment supports multiple languages. However, UTF-8 encoding can cause problems when sharing SAS data with sites that use default encodings.
Note: If you plan to configure your machine as a Unicode server, your operating system must use UTF-8 encoding.
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Locate your Software Order Email.
Your Software Order Email (SOE) contains two pieces of important information that you will need later when you download your SAS software: your SAS order number and your SAS installation key.
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