WinCC OA on Debian

[nedzad]

Hello,

Is it possible to install WinCC OA on Debian OS and if it is, which installation package shoud I use?

[kilianvp]

No Debian is not supported and there are no install packages for Debian

sadly

[vogler]

right, but you may use docker and run winccoa in a centos container (docker pull centos)

[kilianvp]

Docker is great but the license is a issue.. I need a new shield.txt?

using Xvfb to run headless?

[leoknipp]

Is it a question if you need a new shield.txt?
If a new licenses is needed depends on the license you already got.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[Gertjan van Schijndel]

You could try Alien to convert one of the rpm installation package to deb.

[dgi]

You can install and use WinccOA on Debian, but you have to resolve some of the dependencies on your own.

Install WinCCOA on Debian Stretch:


Setup

Install dependencies and tools from the debian repository:

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$ sudo apt install rpm2cpio libhyphen0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libjpeg62 libdouble-conversion1

Unzip WinCCOA archive into install directory:

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$ unzip WinCC_OA_3.16_linux_rhel_x86_64_P*.zip

Unpack needed/wanted install packages into local install directory:

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$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-api-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-applications-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-base-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-help-en-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-rdb-oracle-libs12-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-s7plus-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-specialfunctions-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-sqldrivers-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio WinCC_OA_3.16-video-rhel-0-7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

Resolve Dependencies
These dependencies can not be installed via Debian repositories, because Debian does not offer the right library versions. In case of security updates by CentOS you will have to update these libraries on your own.
Download dependencies needed from CentOS to temporary directory:

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$ mkdir ./tmp
$ cd ./tmp
$ wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/libpng-1.5.13-7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
$ wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/updates/x86_64/Packages/openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm 
$ wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/libicu-50.1.2-17.el7.x86_64.rpm
$ wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/libwebp-0.3.0-7.el7.x86_64.rpm

Extract them to local tmp directory:

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$ rpm2cpio libpng-1.5.13-7.el7_2.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio libicu-50.1.2-17.el7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
$ rpm2cpio libwebp-0.3.0-7.el7.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

Move CentOS dependencies to WinCCOA bin directory:

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cd ..
cp -rf ./tmp/usr/lib64/* ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/bin/

Cleanup (optional):

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$ rm -rf *.rpm
$ rm -rf *.zip
$ rm -rf ./tmp

Setup and Start Documentation (Optional)

First register help documents (this only needs to be done once):

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$ ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/bin/assistant -register ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/WinCC_OA.qch -collectionFile ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/WinCC_OA.qhc
$ ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/bin/assistant -register ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/UserDependentAlerts.qch -collectionFile ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/WinCC_OA.qhc
$ ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/bin/assistant -register ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/TestFramework_3.16/help/en_US.utf8/TestFramework.qch -collectionFile ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/WinCC_OA.qhc

Start help browser:

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$ ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/bin/assistant -collectionFile ./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/help/en_US.utf8/WinCC_OA.qhc

Bootstrapping


Create bootstrapping script named startOA in install directory and add following content (do not forget to make it executable afterwards):

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#!/bin/bash
# Author: Daniel Giritzer, 24.03.2018
WCCOA_VER=3.16
export PATH=$(pwd)/opt/WinCC_OA/$WCCOA_VER/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/opt/WinCC_OA/$WCCOA_VER/bin
export PVSS_II_ROOT=$(pwd)/etc
export PVSS_II=$(pwd)/opt/WinCC_OA/$WCCOA_VER/config/config
startPA

Create WinCCOA config file named pvssInst.conf in ./etc and add following content: (replace '/path/to/' with install path)

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[Software\ETM\PVSS II\3.16]
InstallationDir = "/path/to/opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/"

Add install path to WinCCOA global config:
./opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/config/config
Edit pvss_path and proj_path (should then look similar to this, replace '/path/to/' with install path):

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[general]
pvss_path = "/path/to/opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/"
proj_path = "/path/to/opt/WinCC_OA/3.16/"
proj_version = "3.16"
langs = "en_US.utf8"
langs = "de_AT.utf8"
langs = "ru_RU.utf8"
lang = "auto"

Start WinCCOA with the help of the bootstrapping script in the root of the install directory (startOA )

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$ ./startOA

I do not recommend doing something like this in an production environment.

Screenshot:

Screenshot

[dgi]

PS: Same procedure also works for Ubuntu. (and probably also for all other .deb based distros)