Renewing SAS for Linux at the Command line

Submitted by John on Wed, 2013-02-06 08:50
sudo /usr/local/SAS/SASFoundation/9.3/sassetup

That gives you this:

Welcome to SAS Setup, the program used to renew your SAS software.

Some conventions used throughout SAS Setup are:
       *   indicates which menu selection is the default choice
     ( )   indicates the default response to a prompt
       !   starts a sub-shell on your system
       h   displays help for a menu selection or prompt
       g   goes back to a previous menu selection or prompt
       q   quits SAS Setup at any point

Setup Utilities Menu
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* 1.  Renew SAS Software
   -------------------------------
   g: Go back   q: Quit    h: Help
   -------------------------------
Action? (1)

If you continue, you can specify your SETINIT file:

SAS Installation Data (SID) is a text file required to install a customized
version of SAS. The SID was e-mailed to your SAS Installation Representative. If
you would like to receive the SID via e-mail now, please use URL to retrieve it
before continuing the installation.

   http://support.sas.com/adminservices-SID

Specify the file containing SAS Installation Data.
-->/path/to/SAS93_XXXXXX_99999999_LINUX_X86-64.txt

Press return, and hopefully you'll see:

SAS Installation Data retrieved successfully.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Applying SAS Installation Data
Please wait...

SAS Installation Data application is complete.

Reference:

Ubuntu 64, SAS 9.2 & What I DO all Day
Usage Note 10838: When updating the SAS 9 license, "ERROR: 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order" error message appears

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RHEL6