PureMessage tarballs are located in the
tarball directory on the PureMessage download server (pmx.sophos.com). Use a file transfer utility, such as
wget, to download the tarball. Log in as the PureMessage user ('pmx' by default), and extract the tarball into
a temporary directory before proceeding.
Downloading and Extracting the Tarball
- Change to your system's temporary directory:
cd /tmp
Note: Ensure that the tarball is extracted into a directory where the PureMessage user has read and execute permissions (such as
/tmp), or explicitly grant permissions after extracting the tarball.
- Retrieve the desired version that matches your platform from the Sophos website:
wget pmx.sophos.com/tarball/pmxrepo-version-platform.tar
- Ensure that the ownership of this file is set to pmx for the user and the
group.
- Extract the contents of the tarball:
tar -xvf pmxrepo-version-platform.tar
- If you are installing PureMessage, copy the
installation script that Sophos sent to you via email to the same directory where you extracted
the tarball (for example, /tmp). If you are upgrading PureMessage, follow the steps in "Upgrading PureMessage from a Tarball Distribution".
Once the tarball has been extracted according to the instructions show above, see "Installing
PureMessage for UNIX 5.5"" or "Upgrading PureMessage from a Tarball Distribution" to complete an
installation or upgrade of PureMessage.
Important:
Following an installation or upgrade, you must reconfigure PureMessage so that it retrieves future updates and upgrades
frrom the correct Sophos repository.
- Once the tarball installation or upgrade has completed, return to the main menu of the
installer.
- Select Upgrade PureMessage Components, then select Change
Repository.
- In the Change Repository text box, enter:
http://pmx.sophos.com/v5/<Platform>/
- Select OK, and press
Enter
.
- Select Return to the main menu, and then Exit the
installer.