### Procedure 1. Open the Advantest Software Center in a browser: [https://softwarecenter.advantest.com/](https://softwarecenter.advantest.com/)Login with your credentials. 2. To get the list of all available Licensing products, from the left menu select: **Other > Licensing**[![11.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/3vE11-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/3vE11-png.png) 3. Scroll to and select **FNP-Client** and the version you want to install and expand to display the details. 4. **Copy the installation command** to the clipboard by clicking [![22.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/J5O22-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/J5O22-png.png).

To install the **smart-install-3** tool, you need root permissions. To install software with **smart-install-3** version 3.1.6.0 and higher, the user account you are using must be a root-level account or be included in the **smartinstall** user group or the **smart-install-3** command must be run as system administrator (root). Add a user to the **smartinstall** user group with the command: `usermod -aG smartinstall username`

Running this command on your workstation installs the package to your system controller. For details, see [smart-install-3 command line tool](https://tdc.advantest.com/help/topic/com.verigy.itee.help.smartest.ui.8.7.6/353606.htm "Command line tool for downloading, installing and uninstalling related software from the Advantest Software Center.") and [Downloading SmarTest software](https://tdc.advantest.com/help/topic/com.verigy.itee.help.smartest.ui.8.7.6/354237.htm "The smart-install-3 tool can be used to download SmarTest products available from the Advantest Software Center to your local system."). Alternatively, click on a file. The save file dialog opens, from which you can specify a download location. For details, see [Downloading SmarTest software](https://tdc.advantest.com/help/topic/com.verigy.itee.help.smartest.ui.8.7.6/354237.htm "The smart-install-3 tool can be used to download SmarTest products available from the Advantest Software Center to your local system."). 5. **Optional:** 1. Download the archive package by clicking the [![9.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/NQh9-png.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-10/scaled-1680-/NQh9-png.png) icon. The selected license (**tar.gz**) package is downloaded to your browser's download folder. Example FNP Client packages include: `fnp_client_11.12.1.7_20056_rhel7.tar.gz` 2. Create an empty installation directory. For example: `/tmp/smartest_pakages` 3. Install the RPM package from the **smartest\_packages** directory on your workstation: `smart-install-3 local-install .tar.gz ` For example: `smart-install-3 local-install fnp-client_11.12.1.7-20056_rhel7.tar.gz` Installation of the selected licensing packages starts and successful installation is confirmed with:

``` Complete! ```

4. Remove the installation directory. For example: `rm -rf /tmp/smartest_packages` 5. After the installation has completed, configure the license server configuration file where the list of FlexNet Publisher license servers are listed in a prioritized order as described in [System .lic license files](https://lhc.advantest.com/books/client-configuration-and-license-management/page/system-lic-license-files "System *.lic licenses enable you to scale test system capabilities, such as speed and memory.") and [Editing .lic license files](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/88#bkmrk-editing-.lic-license "This topic describes how to edit FlexNet Publisher license server related license files (.lic files).").