UNIX requirements

Supported platforms

Synergy/DE 11.1 is supported on the following UNIX platforms.

Platform

System code

Version

HP-UX 64-bit (Itanium)

509

11i v3 or higher

IBM AIX 32-bit

004

7.1 SP 5 or higher

IBM AIX 64-bit

304

7.1 SP 5 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

Oracle Solaris 32-bit (SPARC)

020

11.4 or higher

Oracle Solaris 64-bit (SPARC)

320

11.4 or higher

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 (e.g., on Ubuntu 20.04, the libtinfo.so.6 library is present, but not libtinfo.so.5). 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.

Linux
(x86 and x64)

libtinfo.so.5

This library is required by the runtime.

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.

Important

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. 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.