How to access the SAS Windowing Environment (SAS 9.4, platform: Linux for X64)?

[PharmlyDoc]

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".

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")

But I can't find SAS 9.4 on the computer with the "Linux for X64" license:

 

How do I access the SAS Windowing Environment - "SAS 9.4 (English)"? 

Thanks.

 

[gwootton · Accepted solution]

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.

[Nigel_Pain]

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.

[AllanBowe]

If you don't have EG, or local Base SAS, or the EBI stack, or Viya - there is another option

My team have built a free, open source server for SAS:  https://github.com/sasjs/server

You can install it on your Linux server in 2 lines of code:

curl -L https://github.com/sasjs/server/releases/latest/download/linux.zip > linux.zip
unzip linux.zip

You can then just run `./api-linux` to launch.  Give it the path to your executable and you immediately have a web server (on port 5000) with SAS in it.

If you'd like to do further setup (whitelisting, user accounts, alternative runtimes, permissions etc) check out the docs:  https://server.sasjs.io