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How to: SAP® on Linux

Installation Guide

This guide will help you get started with proper SAP® installation on Linux.

Motivation

We needed to install SAP® on Linux and we wanted to document the process.
Although there is a official linux version of the SAP® GUI, it is completely different from the Windows version and it is not as user friendly. We also had problems with the wireguard VPN only supporting one user at a time, so we had to use the SAPTUNNEL instead. Another reason for using it with Wine.

Credits

  • Linus for finding out the whole solution
  • Simon for testing, polishing and creating this site
  • SAP® for creating the software

Prerequisites

  • A Linux installation (We used Arch Linux, this guide supports Arch, Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora)
  • Internet connection
  • Somewhere you can download the SAP® GUI and SAPTUNNEL from
  • A few MB of free space
  • A bit of time (Wine dependencies can take a while to install)

Installation Process

Step 1: Install Wine

Terminal window
sudo pacman -Sy wine winetricks --needed

If the installation fails, enable the Multilib and try again.

Step 2: Create a 32-bit Wine prefix

Terminal window
WINEARCH=win32 wineboot

Step 3: Install needed DLLs and switch wine to Windows 10 (it will be in Windows 7 by default)

Terminal window
winetricks -q urlmon vcrun2013 vb6run wsh57 ie8 mfc40 mfc42 dotnet40 gdiplus corefonts

This can take a while, so be patient. If it ever gets stuck, you can restart.
If Archive.org gets DDOSed again, you are out of luck. (That definitely didn’t happen to us)
After that, change the Windows version to Windows 10:

Terminal window
winetricks -q win10

You can use the winecfg command for that as well.

Step 4: Download & Install SAPTUNNEL

Terminal window
wine saptunnel-setup.exe

Type in your name, email and the Zeebedee Key when asked.

Step 5: Download & Install SAP® GUI

Terminal window
wine sapgui-setup.exe

Step 6: Change SAP® GUI default theme

Terminal window
wine reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP\General\Appearance" -v "SelectedTheme" -t REG_DWORD -d "0x00000100" -f

This is just a more convenient way of changing the default theme to the only usable one.