topic Re: How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)? in Administration and Deployment https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833827#M25069 <P>You can either use Enterprise Guide to connect to the Linux SAS server, rather than a full SAS Windowing environment, or use an X Server package to run SAS on the Linux machine.</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:07:10 GMT Nigel_Pain 2022-09-16T12:07:10Z How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833656#M25063 <P>I'm using a computer with Windows 10 Enterprise, and my institution has a SAS 9.4 license on the following platform: "Linux for X64".</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Another institution that I'm affiliated with I am able to access the SAS Windowing Environment by clicking on "SAS 9.4" – see attached screenshot (where the license platform is "Microsoft Windows Workstation for x64")</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 10.39.31 AM.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/75287iE50471364FFA9795/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 10.39.31 AM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 10.39.31 AM.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>But I can't find SAS 9.4 on the computer with the "Linux for X64" license:</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 11.50.33 AM.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/75288i54D2E2959C2A077B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 11.50.33 AM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2022-09-15 at 11.50.33 AM.png" /></span></P> <P> </P> <P>How do I access the SAS Windowing Environment - "SAS 9.4 (English)"?&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks.</P> <P> </P> Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:01:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833656#M25063 PharmlyDoc 2022-09-15T16:01:17Z Re: How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833657#M25064 You would have to run it on the Linux server where it is installed. You wouldn't be able to run SAS on your desktop unless it was installed there and had a valid Windows license. Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:06:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833657#M25064 gwootton 2022-09-15T16:06:42Z Re: How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833827#M25069 <P>You can either use Enterprise Guide to connect to the Linux SAS server, rather than a full SAS Windowing environment, or use an X Server package to run SAS on the Linux machine.</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:07:10 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833827#M25069 Nigel_Pain 2022-09-16T12:07:10Z Re: How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833854#M25070 <P>If you don't have EG, or local Base SAS, or the EBI stack, or Viya - there is another option</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>My team have built a free, open source server for SAS:&nbsp; <A href="https://github.com/sasjs/server" target="_blank">https://github.com/sasjs/server</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You can install it on your Linux server in 2 lines of code:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>curl -L https://github.com/sasjs/server/releases/latest/download/linux.zip &gt; linux.zip unzip linux.zip</PRE> <P>You can then just run `./api-linux` to launch.&nbsp; Give it the path to your executable and you immediately have a web server (on port 5000) with SAS in it.<BR /><BR />If you'd like to do further setup (whitelisting, user accounts, alternative runtimes, permissions etc) check out the docs:&nbsp; <A href="https://server.sasjs.io" target="_blank">https://server.sasjs.io</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:44:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/How-to-access-the-SAS-Windowing-Environment-SAS-9-4-platform/m-p/833854#M25070 AllanBowe 2022-09-16T13:44:21Z