Software Installation

Installation Requirements

The following are the minimum requirements for the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software:

Component	Minimum Requirement
System memory	8 GB RAM
Free disk space	From 2 GB to 15 GB depending on how many different specific references are needed for the decompression. Specific references are available for downloads in the ORA Support Site. For human data, 2 GB are required. The default human reference is already pre-installed within the software and does not need to be downloaded.
Compatible Linux distributions	CentOS 7 and later Ubuntu 14 and later Oracle 8 and later Fedora 26 Debian 8
Compatible Mac distribution	Mac 10.15 and later (Apple silicon and Intel CPU processors)
Compatible Windows distribution	Windows 10 and later

Installing the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software

Use the following steps to install the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software once DRAGEN ORA Decompression has been downloaded from the ORA Support Site.

Linux or Mac

1. Extract the archive files using the following command:

tar -xzvf orad.2.7.0.linux.tar.gz (Linux) 
tar -xzvf orad.2.7.0.mac.tar.gz (Mac)

2. Navigate to the Orad directory as follows:

cd orad.2.7.0.linux

3. Move the executable to your preferred location as follows:

mv orad your_preferred_location/

4. Add Orad to your path as follows:

echo 'PATH=$PATH: your_preferred_location/'» ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

5. Move the oradata folder content into the home repository as follows:

mv oradata ~

To store the folder in a different location, use the following command:

mv oradata ~/otherlocation/

When oradata has been moved in another location, you can:

• either point to the reference by using the ORA_REF_PATH environment variable as follows:

export ORA_REF_PATH=~/otherlocation/oradata/

• or use the following command at decompression

--ora-reference ~/otherlocation/

Windows

1. Extract the downloaded archive with a software that can handle gziped tarballs, such as 7-Zip. Right-click on the archive and select Extract with. The following two files are extracted:

• orad.exe

• refbin

The following steps use C:\Users\user1 as an example location. Change C:\Users\user1 to the location where you extracted the archive.

2. Open the Command Prompt application.

3. Set the environment variables to use the orad.exe and the refbin file with the set command or the setx command. The set command configures the variables temporarily (for the current console window) while the setx command configures the variables permanently.

4. Set the path to the orad.exe to the PATH environment variable as follows:

set PATH=%PATH%; C:\Users\user1

or

setx PATH=%PATH%; C:\Users\user1

5. Set the path to the refbin file to an ORA_REF_PATH environment variable as follows:

set ORA_REF_PATH= C:\Users\user1

or

setx ORA_REF_PATH= C:\Users\user1