Unix requirements

Supported platforms

Synergy/DE 12.3 is supported on the following Unix platforms.

Platform	System code	Version
IBM AIX 32-bit	004	7.2 or higher
IBM AIX 64-bit	304	7.2 or higher
Linux (x86)^a ^b	028	CentOS 6.5 or higher Debian 7 or higher Fedora 13 or higher Red Hat RHEL 6 or higher SUSE 11.3 or higher Ubuntu 11.10 or higher
Linux (x64)^a	428

a. The absolute minimum requirements for all versions of Linux are support for glibc 2.11 and, if you are using any security or encryption features, OpenSSL 1.0.*. If you plan to enable SELinux, see Synergex KnowledgeBase article 2043.

b. For 32-bit Linux, the minimum processor requirements are a Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 processor supporting SSE2. Many modern Linux systems do not come with the 32-bit subsystems installed; you must install them before you can run any 32-bit (system code 028) Synergy components.

Patches

You can run the dltest utility to verify that the libraries shown below are installed in the correct locations.

Some recent versions of Unix operating systems may come with more recent versions of these libraries. Nonetheless, the versions listed below are the required versions and if they are missing, an error will be generated.

Platform	Patch	Notes
All Unix platforms	libssl.so.1.1 libssl.so.10 libssl.so	You must have one of these libraries installed for OpenSSL—used by xfServer/xfServerPlus encryption, data encryption, SQL OpenNet data packet encryption, and the Synergy HTTP document transport API. They are searched for in the order shown. See also OpenSSL requirements (Unix and OpenVMS).
Linux (x86 and x64)	libstdc++.so.6	This library is required by the compiler.
libcrypt.so.1	This library is required by xfServer and xfServerPlus (rsynd) and xfODBC (VTX4.so).

Platform

Patch

Notes

All Unix platforms

libssl.so.1.1

libssl.so.10

libssl.so

You must have one of these libraries installed for OpenSSL—used by xfServer/xfServerPlus encryption, data encryption, SQL OpenNet data packet encryption, and the Synergy HTTP document transport API. They are searched for in the order shown. See also OpenSSL requirements (Unix and OpenVMS).

Linux
(x86 and x64)

libstdc++.so.6

This library is required by the compiler.

libcrypt.so.1

This library is required by xfServer and xfServerPlus (rsynd) and xfODBC (VTX4.so).

Environment setup

The Synergy environment must be set up for each user who wants to run Synergy/DE products. The necessary environment variables can be set at either the system level or the user level.

Source the setsde script, located in the synergyde directory, to enable the Synergy/DE environment for the products you have installed and licensed. For example,

. ./setsde

You may want to add this script to your start-up file, such as rc or systemd (for help using systemd on Linux, see Synergex KnowledgeBase article 2522).

Setsde can be used with any Unix shell except csh. Synergex uses ksh; if you do not use ksh, your Unix shell may require different syntax than that included in the setsde script. See your system administrator for assistance.

Note that we do not recommend editing the setsde script.