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- There are significant benefits to installing software on a network filesystem, if available. NFS, SMB or AFP are all options for sharing a single software installation among multiple machines. Network installations have less administrative overhead, bandwidth and significant disk savings over a local installation.
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-Local installations are an option using our Installation Manager. [Command line and GUI options are available.](client_downloads.md)
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+Local installations are an option using our Installation Manager. [Command line and GUI options are available.](client_downloads.md) These can be configured with automatic updates.
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- [General](#general)
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- [Linux](#linux)
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+ - [Packages for RHEL 7, and 8 and compatible machines:](#packages-for-rhel-7-and-8-and-compatible-machines)
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- [Mac OS X](#mac-os-x)
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- 64-bit machines need a number of 32-bit compatibility packages due to a number of legacy packages that are only available as 32-bit applications. Additional fonts for Tcl/Tk, Motif and Xview applications are also encouraged.
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-Packages for RHEL 7, and 8 and compatible machines:
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+### Packages for RHEL 7, and 8 and compatible machines:
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+**32-bit compatibility libraries and fonts**
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- yum install glibc.i686 gnome-terminal libgcc.i686 libX11.i686 libXaw.i686 libXext.i686 \
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+ yum install glibc.i686 libgcc.i686 libX11.i686 libXaw.i686 libXext.i686 \
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ncurses.i686 redhat-lsb.i686 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi \
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- xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-misc libXScrnSaver freetype.i686 \
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- fontconfig.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686 glx-utils
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+ xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-misc freetype.i686 \
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+ fontconfig.i686 zlib.i686 libstdc++.i686
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+**X11 libraries and other required packages**
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+ yum install libxcb xcb-util xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-renderutil xcb-util-wm
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+ yum install gnome-terminal libXScrnSaver glx-utils
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In addition to the above, on RHEL8, CentOS8 and similar distributions, you will need
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