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Installation

Note

Selerity Desktop (Personal) is made available as a portable executable for Windows, Mac and Linux. No installation is required per-se, but certain steps are required in order to run the application.

1. Download Selerity Desktop (Personal)

Selerity Desktop (Personal) is available at no cost from Selerity. To request a download link, please log a request on the Selerity Support site and advise if you are using Windows, a Mac or Linux. The file you download should be saved to a directory you can easily navigate to from the command line. You may wish to create a new directory to save it to.

Windows

The file download for Windows users is desktop_personal.exe. If you accidentally "open" this file when you download it (or double click it in Explorer) you may get a Windows Defender warning. This is because the application is meant to be used from the Command Prompt.

Mac

The file download for Mac users is desktop_personal_darwin. By default this file will download to ~/Downloads. Open Terminal and run the following commands, updating ~/Downloads as necessary if you saved the file to a different location:

cd ~/Downloads
chmod 755 desktop_personal_darwin
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine desktop_personal_darwin

Linux

The file download for Linux users is desktop_personal_linux. Open a terminal and run the following commands, updating ~/Downloads as necessary to reflect where you saved the file to:

cd ~/Downloads
chmod 755 desktop_personal_linux

2. Download your SAS License and Certificate files

These files can be found at my.sas.com

  1. Log into my.sas.com
  2. Navigate to My Orders
  3. Expand your Order
  4. Click the Download Certificates link and save that file to the same directory as the Selerity Desktop (Personal) application.
  5. Click the Download License Only link and save that file to the same directory as the Selerity Desktop (Personal) application.

Downloading your license and certificate files from my.sas.com

3. Conclusion

At this point the "installation" is complete. Using the application will involve opening a command prompt/terminal and then running Selerity Desktop (Personal) with the appropriate command line arguments.