Installation and licenses

After downloading the Analytica 4.6 installer from http://www.lumina.com/ or inserting the Analytica CD-ROM into your CD or DVD drive, just double-click the installer to start installation. It installs onto your hard drive the executable software, all documentation as Adobe PDF files, plus a range of Analytica libraries and example models. If you have installed an earlier release of Analytica, such as 3.1 or 4.4, the installer provides you the option to leave it there, so you can run either version.

We recommend that you run the Analytica installer from the account where you will eventually be using Analytica, rather than changing to an administrator account first. However, if you change to an admin account first, or if you have an IT administrator install it for you, then you (or they) should not enter your activation key into the installer (just leave the field blank), since you want the license to be activated for your user account, not your administrator’s account. When the activation key is not provided during the install, you will be asked to enter it the first time you launch Analytica.

The setup program asks you to confirm the directory name in which to install Analytica, by default, C:\Program Files\Lumina\Analytica 4.6. Most users can accept the default. If you do not have sufficient permissions to write to this directory, then you may want to use [My Documents]\Lumina\Analytica 4.6.

Licenses: You need a license to use the software. The Analytica_free101 license is automatically included with the downloaded software, and may be used by anyone.

Two types of Analytica licenses may be purchased: individual and centrally-managed. Individual licenses are installed directly on your computer, while centrally-managed licenses (which includes floating and site licenses) are hosted by a Reprise License Manager (RLM) server.