This chapter describes the installation procedures for Abaqus documentation, licensing, and products, as well as the procedures to uninstall these components. An Abaqus installation requires two DVDs: one for documentation and one for licensing and products.
Before starting the Abaqus installation procedures, you should confirm that your computer is compatible with this release of Abaqus. You can do this by checking the software requirements specified in Appendix A, “System requirements,” or by using the system information utility available on the licensing and products DVD. The system information utility compares your system configuration to the published system requirements. Use the following commands or option to run the script:
UNIX and Linux platforms
/dvd_dir/setup -sysinfo
where dvd_dir is the directory used when the DVD was mounted or where the installation files reside.
Windows platforms
From the startup screen, select Launch the Abaqus System Information Utility.
From the command line, type
dvd_drive:\setup.exe -sysinfo
where dvd_drive is the DVD-ROM drive.
The disk space used for installation will be charged against the account of the owner of the Abaqus installation directory. Administrator privileges are required on Windows platforms for all installation activities.
A complete Abaqus installation consists of three procedures. You should perform the installation procedures in the following order:
Abaqus documentation should be installed on at least one computer on your network. Abaqus documentation should be installed before licensing and products because the product installation procedure uses the documentation URL to configure network access to the online documentation.
You must have an Abaqus 6.11 license file to install Abaqus licensing and start the license server. A new license file is required for each new general release, and this license file allows you to run subsequent Abaqus 6.11 maintenance deliveries and previous releases dating back to Abaqus 6.2-7. For example, a new license file is required for Abaqus 6.11-1, and this license file can be used to run all Abaqus 6.11 maintenance deliveries (Abaqus 6.11-2, Abaqus 6.11-3, etc.) and any earlier releases of Abaqus (Abaqus 6.10, Abaqus 6.9, etc.) still installed on your network. To request an Abaqus license file, contact your local sales office.
Abaqus licensing should be installed on only one computer unless you are using a redundant license server configuration. The server computers that you choose for documentation and licensing should be accessible by all computers on the network where you plan to run Abaqus and should be stable machines that are not frequently rebooted or shut down.
Before installing the Abaqus products, you must have an Abaqus network license server that is compatible with Abaqus 6.11 installed and running on your network. Abaqus 6.11 licensing is compatible with FLEXnet Licensing Version 10.8.7 or higher.
During the installation procedures, default values are supplied whenever possible; it is highly recommended that you use the defaults unless you have good reason to change them. The SIMULIA directory structure is designed to facilitate multiple releases of Abaqus. The Abaqus products, Abaqus licensing, and Abaqus documentation should be installed in the same SIMULIA parent directory to take full advantage of this directory structure. For an illustration of the directory structure, see Appendix B, “Abaqus release directories and files.”
You can install Abaqus on a mounted network drive and configure your users' computers to run Abaqus as a client. For more information, see “Client installation for Windows,” Section D.2.