[Start your Free SAP ABAP] 01. Preparation for Free ABAP Installation

Hi This is SAPOps ST03.

I would like to share some document and track how to install free SAP ABAP system with latest version.

If you are interested with SAP and want to learn it, but you don't know how to, stay tune.

This series will guide you to start from install Operation System to SAP installation even you don't have SAP license. As general SAP BASIS work will be describe later.

As a result, you can use following infrastructures for ABAP development.

1	SAP Application Server ABAP 7.52 SP01	SAP ABAP System. Platform for ABAP Dev
2	SAP GUI for Java 7.5 / SAP GUI for Windows 7.50	SAP ABAP client program. Recommend Windows.
3	SAP Sybase ASE 16.0.1	Database for this SAP System

You should prepare following items for further process

#1 PC or Virtual Machine (VirtualBox/VMWare)

There are tons of virtual machine are out there like Virtual Box or VMWare and SAP even can be installed on docker. So you can choose any virtualization as you want, but this SAP system only can be installed in Linux. (This Free SAP version is only adjusted for Linux version)

You may also refer following specification for your PC / VM

- x86_64 Processor

- Minimum 4GB Memory (Personally, recommand to over than 8GB)

- 8GB swap

- 100GB Disk

- In addition, SAP GUI will be installed in separate PC and it also need 2GB disk,.

#2 Operation System

As I already mention, this Free SAP is only installed on Linux 64bit

Linux Distribution	Detail
openSUSE	Linux comes from Germany (SAP is also German comany. so they looks very close)
SUSE SLES	SUSE Linux Enterprise version
Fedora
RHEL
Ubuntu & Debian	You should install csh separately, and perform installation on csh.

#3 Check End User License Agreement

You should check EULA before start this journey.

You can check it through following link. - SAP Software End User License Agreement (SAP DEVELOPER CENTER MASTER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT)

#4 Reference Link

SAP blog - SAP ABAP installation for Developers

## Start your Free SAP ABAP Series

01. Prepare for Free ABAP Installation

02. OS Installation (CentOS)

03. Download Installation File

04. Install SAP ABAP

05. Install SAP GUI

06. Post Installation