Alter Ego

Marjan recently blog about installing this on a Linux Gentoo installation. This is the Ubuntu version of it. It's fairly quite simple; so no worries. First of all, I would like to mention a limitation: NO SMARTFORMS! Yes, you cannot use Smartforms on PlatinGUI. You will have to emulate Windows about that. Even Wine-ing Windows SAPGUI won't work because it needs the notorious ActiveX. Sucks, I know; but let's live with it until SAP release a full fledge PlatinGUI (hoping).

1. Download the PlatinGUI here. Please be informed that newer versions might be available.
2. Install Sun Java. It MUST BE Sun Java! No other Java works! This might take some time to install.

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

3. Now browse to where you downloaded the PlatinGUI.

cd ~

4. Install it!

java -jar PlatinGUI-Linux-710r2.jar

5. Follow the instructions: just click Next Next Next; Finish.

6. Execute PlatinGUI by using this command.

guilogon

7. Configure your SAP server connections! If not how are you going to connect to your servers, right? Hope this screenshot will be of some use.



More examples:
For system IP 192.168.1.105 and system ID 10:
conn=/H/192.168.1.105/S/3210
For system domain my.domain.com and system ID 00:
conn=/H/my.domain.com/S/3200

I hope that's clear enough. You are done!

NOTE: If guilogon doesn't work, it means the bin is not available in /usr/bin/ (expected to happen when you install something not using package manager). To create one (softlink), do this (again, assumption is based on PlatinGUI installed in Home):

sudo ln -s ~/SAPGUI7.10rev1/bin/guilogon /usr/bin/guilogon

Ensure that the softlink is properly created:

ls -l /usr/bin | grep guilogon

Drop me a comment for any queries! :D