Software Requirements for Micro Focus Enterprise Developer Unix Components

The following topic lists the software requirements for Micro Focus Enterprise Developer Unix Components.

Software required by the setup file

  • The "awk", "ed", "ps", "sed", tar", "sed" and "which" "tar" utilities must be installed and added to the PATH.
  • Xterm, the terminal emulator for the X Window System, is part of your UNIX/Linux distribution but is not always installed by default. Use your UNIX/Linux installation media to install it.
  • GNOME menus and buttons have been standardized across all applications so that icons are not displayed by default. To keep the icons and the look and feel of previous versions, enable the menus_have_icons property with the command:
    gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true

Libraries required by the setup file

The following table lists the required libraries for Red Hat and SUSE Linux platforms. The setup file checks that both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries listed below are installed on both 32-bit and on 64-bit Operating Systems for this product to install and work correctly.

If installing on a 64-bit OS, the 32-bit libraries are not installed by default and must be installed before you start the installation.

Library 32-bit Library Name 64-bit Library Name Platform
s390 SUSE 121 SUSE 151 Red Hat 6x Red Hat 7 Red Hat 8
glibc glibc-*.i686 glibc-*.x86_64 glibc-*.s390 X X X
libgcc libgcc-*.i686 libgcc-*.x86_64 libgcc-*.s390 X X X
libstdc++ libstdc++-*.i686 libstdc++-*.x86_64 libstdc++-*.s390 X X X
glibc-locale glibc-locale-32bit glibc-locale-2 X X
glibc-devel glibc-devel-*.i686 glibc-devel-*.x86_64 glibc-devel-*.s390 X X X
elfutils-libelf elfutils-libelf.i386 or elfutils-libelf.i686 elfutils-libelf.x86-64 N/A X X X
libelf-devel** elfutils-devel.i386 or elfutils-devel.i686 elfutils-devel.x86-64 N/A X X X
libelf-devel** libelf-devel-32bit-0.137-8.19 libelf-devel-0.137-8.19 N/A X X X
libelf1** libelf1-32bit-0.137-8.19 libelf1-0.137-8.19 N/A X X
gcc2 gcc*.i686 gcc*x86_64 X X X X X X
cpp2 cpp*x86_64 X X X
ld2 Binutils*.i686 Binutils*x86_64 X X X X X X
  • Libraries marked with an 'X' are not included in the platform and need to be installed separately.
  • 1On SUSE 12 and 15, you can only install the 64-bit version of Enterprise Developer. The glibc-locale-32bit library is still required by the SafeNet Sentinel licensed components.
  • 2On Red Hat, these libraries are required to enable COBOL and PL/I to compile.
  • * Additional libraries required to use the core_on_error run-time system variable. The gdb packages (for the GNU Project Debugger) can be installed from the install media for your OS.
  • ** Operating system libraries required for PL/I support on both SUSE and Red Hat.

Visit the Red Hat Web site for more information.

Software required to run the product

  • Java 1.8 (64-bit) or later is required to run Micro Focus Enterprise Developer Unix Components. The recommended version is Adoptium's OpenJDK Temurin 17 (LTS) with HotSpot. You can download Adoptium's OpenJDK Temurin 17 (LTS) with HotSpot from Adoptium's Web site and unpack the archive anywhere on your machine.

Required environment variables

  • To execute JVM COBOL code, you need to set the environment as follows:
    • Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. When installing the product, set this variable to a 64-bit Java installation or the installation terminates. For example, execute the following:
      export JAVA_HOME=java_install_dir

      where java_install_dir is the path to the JAVA installation directory such as /usr/java/javan.n

    • Add $JAVA_HOME/bin to your system PATH variable. To do this, execute:
      export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
    • You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. If you do not set it as specified here, the installation will run but you might experience unexpected behavior from the installer.

      The LANG settings are English and Japanese only so set it to one of the following locales:

      C, default, en_GB, en_GB.UTF-8, en_US, en_US.UTF-8
      ja_JP, ja_JP.SJIS, ja_JP.UTF-8, ja_JP.eucJP, ja_JP.eucjp, ja_JP.sjis, ja_JP.ujis, ja_JP.utf8, japanese

      You can set LANG before running the setup file as follows:

      export LANG=C

      Alternatively, add it to the start of the setup command line:

      LANG=C ./setupfilename

      See Using the LANG Environment Variable for details.

License Manager requirements

  • The Micro Focus License Administration tool requires Java to run. It supports Java 1.7 or later.
  • For local servers, you do not need to install the Micro Focus License Administration tool separately, as the setup file installs a new Enterprise Developer client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
  • If you have any network license servers, you must update them before you update the client machines.
  • If you are upgrading from Enterprise Developer release 2.2 or earlier, uninstall the license manager before installing the product.
You can download the new version of the license server software by following these steps:
  1. Log into the Software Licenses and Downloads (SLD) site at https://sld.microfocus.com/mysoftware/download/downloadCenter.
  2. Select your account and click Downloads.
  3. Select a product and a product version from your orders.
  4. In the list of software downloads, locate the License Manager.
  5. Click Download to download an archive with the installers.
  6. Run the installer suitable for your Operating System to install License Manager on your machine.