how to install sap gui in linux

HOW TO run SAPGUI into LINUX

 1) Minimal system requirements.

Linux

Hardware:

CPU: Intel PentiumIII with 800 MHz

RAM: 256MB

Software:

OS: SuSE Linux 9.3 - 10.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4

JVM: Sun Java Runtime Evironment 1.4.2 (32-bit) or 5.0 (32-bit) including Java Plugin

please see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-linux.html and 

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...ocale.doc.html resp. 

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install-linux.html and 

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...ocale.doc.html for details

2) Download SAPGUI from:

ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/sapgui/java/

(anonymous login)

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/sapgui-java

(OSS user and pass)

3) At /java folder in ftp select:

File: PlatinGUI-Linux-700.jar 

(note: maybe a new version is available)

4) At downloaded folder, execute

java -jar PlatinGUI-Linux-700.jar

5) Executing SAPGUI

A) Guilogon:

~/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.00/bin$ ./guilogon

To create servers, touch at new and go to "advanced".

-- tip “use expert configuration”

Example:-

For server 10.1.1.6 with system number 01:

conn=/H/10.1.1.6/S/3201

B) Command line

For server 10.1.1.6 with system number 01:

~/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.00/bin$ ./sapgui /H/10.1.1.6/S/3201