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
Make sure you have administrator rights on your workstation.
Run Serna installer, and follow the instructions.
When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.
With the
button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.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.
Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.
Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_LOGIN\.serna- <VERSION>.
If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose
tab, and click the button.Serna uses Inno Setup as Windows installer. You can use the silent installation feature of Inno Setup.
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.
Make sure you have administrator rights on your workstation.
In Finder double-click the Serna package.
Click serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.dmg in the Finder side bar.
Double-click serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.pkg and follow the installation instructions.
When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.
With the
button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.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.
Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.
Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.
If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose
tab, and click the button.Serna for Linux is available as a RedHat RPM package, and as a tgz archive.
We recommend that you use True Type fonts under Unix. Correct symbol representation critically depends on what fonts are installed on your workstation.
To run Serna, type at a prompt: serna- <VERSION>. Do not try to run serna- <VERSION>.bin.
Log in as: root
To install the Serna package, type: rpm -i serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.rpm, where serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.rpm is the Serna RPM distribution.
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
Log out of root .
When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.
With the
button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.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.
Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.
Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.
If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose
tab, and click the button.Log in as: root.
Unpack archive: tar xvfz serna- <VERSION>- <YYYYMMDD>.tgz
Change directory to the newly created: cd serna
Run installation script: ./install.sh
Provide installation path, or merely hit Enter if /usr/local is OK for you.
Log out of root.
When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.
With the
button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.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.
Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.
Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.
If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose
tab, and click the button.Serna for Solaris is available as a Solaris native package.
To install Serna on Solaris:
Log in as: root
Unpack Serna installation package: gunzip -d serna-<VERSION>-<YYYYMMDD>-sol8-sparc-local.gz.
Install the Serna package: pkgadd -d serna-<VERSION>-<YYYYMMDD>-sol8-sparc-local.
Log out of root .
When you launch Serna for the first time, you need to provide the license certificate that you have been given for that version.
With the
button select the license certificate or enter the path manually.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.
Once the license certificate is accepted, Serna is ready to run.
To run Serna, type at a prompt: serna- <VERSION> or serna. Do not try to run serna- <VERSION>.bin.
Serna configuration directory is specific for the current user and located at ~/.serna- <VERSION>.
If you already used a previous version of Serna, it is recommended to reset your configuration. Start Serna, choose
tab, and click the button.We recommend that you use True Type fonts under Unix. Correct symbol representation critically depends on what fonts are installed on your workstation.