Before You Start With Installation Process…

If you are looking for getting your own local SAP system for learning, then this is a great first step for you to take.

Whether you want to learn and practice:

• ABAP programming
• BW/BI
• SAP system administration

.. and you don’t have sufficient playground/sandbox system to practice all your gained knowledge, this is a great system SAP system for you.

What Options Do You Have?

There are 3 options on how you can run your learning SAP system on your machine.

1. RECOMMENDED – Download fully preinstalled local SAP system

PROS – the process of getting the system is super fast + you get access to your own local system “forever” even when you are offline.

CONS – it is a one-time payment option

RESOURCE: You can find more information about Fully Pre-installed local SAP system here.

2. MANUAL WAY – Follow online tutorials to help you install your own local copy of SAP system

PROS – it’s free

CONS – it takes hours/days to install it. The reason why is that it is not easy to find a complex tutorial which is up to date because changes to the installation process happen quite often.

And that’s the reason for taking it so long.

RESOURCE: you can find such step by step tutorial right here in this blog post if you continue reading further.

WARNING: It may happen that if SAP has changed some links or Linux environment has changed, then the process described in this article may not be the most current, even though we update the process with the most current findings and communicate our findings with SAP to keep our tutorials as most relevant as possible.

3.  Get remote access to SAP system

PROS – getting access to SAP system is the fastest from all options mentioned above

CONS – it is a priced option. Usually, it costs from $30-$100 per month + you always need to be connected to the internet in order to use SAP system.

RESOURCE: remote access service that we keep recommending is this one (fyi, we are affiliate partners for this remote system)

.. or Continue With Manual Installation Process …

In the following FREE articles serie you will find detailed step-by-step instructions, on how to install FREE SAP software on your local machine.

You may ask why to write a blog post about how to install free sap system. Well, if you start to search for getting SAP Trial system and installing it on your own, you will be surprised how difficult can installation be. Why? SAP system was not primarily built for small businesses and definitely  not for home use. Even though we are already in era of “Next, Next, Finish” installation way, because of this, it is not true with SAP installation.

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We are all humans. And sometimes you may find that something is not that clear to you as it could be for somebody else. This is totally normal and expected!

You definitely don’t have to think about yourself, when you find yourself in such point, that this is not for you.

That’s why I have created group of people who are going/went through the very same process which you are about to experience.

They are people like you, who went through the same process as you are going right now.

This support group is far most useful resource you can use along your way, which will speed up your installation process.

I advice you to join the support group right here right now, because it takes some time to get your request approved.

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Prerequisites

Hardware Requirements

SAP requires following OS requirements.

• x86_64 processor based hardware
• at least 6 GB RAM and about 8 GB swap space
• about 100 GB free disk space for the server installation
• about 2 GB free disk space for the client installation

Stable internet connection without data restrictions, because you will be downloading about 20GB of data.

Software Requirements

Before we really dive in, you need to download all the necessary software:

Virtualization Software

Software for running virtual machine. We will be using Virtualbox.

If you need more instructions on how to install Virtualbox, read step by step tutorial on WikiHow.

Virtualbox

Follow the video guide here: https://youtu.be/TTlNQDA3-BU

Linux Distribution

This system has been tested on the following Linux distributions:

• • SUSE SLES

• • openSUSE

• • Fedora

• • RHEL

• Ubuntu and Debian

We will be using openSuse (more about this distro on Wikipedia).

What if you don’t have Windows?

Even if you use some Linux distribution or Mac, you can still install virtual machine via Virtualbox. However the only difference in the installation process will be client which you will use to access the server.

There also come advantages with this approach:

• you can have your own SAP sandbox virtual OS dedicated only to SAP learning
• you will keep your current OS installation clean without “messing it up” with SAP installation files and changes to register
• if you decide to stop learning SAP, you will just delete your file with virtual OS and you are done

What’s the Next Step in This Installation Series?

Download SAP Trial Netweaver System

Downloading SAP Trial System can get tricky, because SAP changes its website structure from time to time.

If you find the same with this tutorial, feel free to share the newest findings in the comments.

So let’s get to downloading SAP ;)

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