Create your own offline installer for the free version of Mercury

You can create an offline installer with select components from the CSD Portfolio using the online installer. First, download the online installer for your operating system - in this example we use Linux but the process is the same for Windows or Mac. The online installer is normally downloaded via the Request Download Links form but if you do not have a licence you can download the free Mercury online installer from the CSD-Community menu on the Downloads page. (It's the same installer but most components of the CSD-Portfolio won't run without a licence.)

From the command line, within the folder where the installer is downloaded, run the following command:

./CSDInstallerOnline-Linux search

This command will list the packages available so you can identify which components you want to generate an offline installer for. This example will show you how to create an offline installer for the free version of Mercury, enCIFer and utilities that depend on it. Note that the below command is all on one line.

./CSDInstallerOnline-Linux create-offline uk.ac.cam.ccdc.csd.mercury uk.ac.cam.ccdc.csd.encifer –-root /local/myinstall -c --accept-licenses

• uk.ac.cam.ccdc.csd.mercury will select Mercury and dependent components
• uk.ac.cam.ccdc.csd.encifer will also include enCIFer in the offline installer
• -root sets the folder where the installer will be placed, in this case /local/myinstall
• -c confirms the process will continue with no user input
• --accept-licenses accepts the user licence for the installer

Once the installer has been created, you can run it by either double-clicking or running the installer from the command line. You can activate the software as normal - this FAQ describes how to activate it with a free CSD-Community licence.

Free Mercury is only for Non-Commercial use. Please contact us at admin@ccdc.cam.ac.uk for Commercial use.