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Chapter 7. Installing the CrossOver Linux Server Client

There are several alternative installation methods for the client software. You will need to pick one, depending on your OS and distribution. All installations must be performed while logged in as root on the client machine.

Linux RPM Installation

For the Linux RPM install you will need two rpm packages produced by CrossOver Office Server Edition. The first package, crossover-client-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm, is the client software itself. The other, crossover-client-profile-7.0.0-std.i386.rpm, is the "profile package" that specifies information about the server and other configuration details.

Automated installation.  The CrossOver Office Server Edition provides an automatic, self-extracting installer that will create and install the needed rpms. In most cases, this will be the simplest approach to use. The self-extracting installer is named install-crossover-client-rpms-7.0.0.

In order to use the self-extracting installer, simply copy the file to the client machine, log in as root, and run:

# sh install-crossover-client-rpms-7.0.0
Erasing /tmp/cxtemp...
Extracting files to /tmp/cxtemp
Invoking:
[rpm -Uvh crossover-client-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm crossover-client-profile-7.0.0-std.i386.rpm]
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:crossover-client               ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:crossover-client-profile       ########################################### [100%]
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Manual installation.  If the self-extracting installer doesn't work for your purposes (for example, if you are automating the install process using an automatic rpm-distributing tool) then you may install the packages directly using rpm as follows:

# rpm -i crossover-client-7.0.0-1.i386.rpm crossover-client-profile-7.0.0-std.i386.rpm
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