Download and Install Lasso Professional 8.6

This page briefly outlines the installation of Lasso Professional 8.6 for each supported platform.

You can download Lasso Professional 8.6 for FREE and run Lasso in "developer mode", which is fully functional but limited to 5 IP's and 200 connections per minute, so it will not support full deployment. Come back and buy the license to unlock its full power when you are convinced that Lasso gives you everything you need—and more!

Recommended reading before you install

• Lasso 8.6 release announcement 
• Lasso Professional 8.6 Features and Fixes
• Lasso Professional 8.6.0.1 release notes 
• Configure Lasso 8 and 9 side-by-side on one server

Lasso is a middleware product which relies on third-party web servers and databases for smooth operation. For late-breaking documentation updates, please consult the Errata directory.

Browse archive of Lasso product downloads

View table of supported operating systems and versions

Read the full installation guide

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Mac OS X

The latest release of Lasso Professional Server 8.6 for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 can be found here:

Download Lasso_Pro_8.6.0.1_Mac.tar.gz (79 MB)

Once downloaded, expand the archive and run the installer which will guide you through the installation process.

Important Information for OS X Lion & Mountain Lion users

To install Lasso Professional 8.6 on Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8  (client or server editions), manual installation of the Apache Connector is required:

• Install Lasso Professional 8.6 in the usual way
• Download and unzip the updated Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so file
• Open window in Terminal app and navigate to the directory where you have unzipped the connector
• Execute the following commands in terminal: 

sudo chmod 755 Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so
sudo cp Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so /usr/libexec/apache2/
sudo apachectl configtest

And if the output is "Syntax OK", run: sudo apachectl restart

If the output is not "Syntax OK", please contact LassoSoft support.

 

Important Information for OS X Mountain Lion Server (10.8 Server) users

The current version of Lasso Professional 8.6 (8.6.0.1) needs its config file moved to the new Apache base directory. After installing, run these commands in Terminal:

sudo mv /etc/apache2/users/lasso8.conf /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/other/
sudo apachectl restart

 

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Microsoft Windows

The latest release of Lasso Professional Server 8.6 for Microsoft Windows can be found here:

 Download Lasso_Pro_8.6.0.1_Win.zip (46 MB)

Once downloaded, expand the archive and run the installer which will guide you through the installation process. For detailed installation and setup instructions, see the Installing Lasso Professional 8.6 for Windows page.

Instructions for installing Lasso 8.6 and FileMaker Server 11 on 64-bit Windows are available.

Please note: you must uninstall/remove any previous installation of Lasso prior to installing updates.

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CentOS Linux 5

Instructions for upgrading ImageMagick on CentOS 5 are available.

See this article if Lasso 8.6 fails to start on boot.

RPM installation

To install Lasso Processional Server from an rpm, download the appropriate file and run:

yum install java-openjdk libicu ImageMagick unixODBC
rpm -ivh name-of-file.rpm

32-bit CentOS 5: Lasso-Professional-8.6.0.1-5.i386.rpm (24Mb)

64-bit CentOS 5: Lasso-Professional-8.6.0.1-5.x86_64.rpm (24 Mb)  

Once Lasso Professional 8.6 has been installed, download and install the appropriate Apache2 connector:

• 32-bit: Lasso-Professional-Apache2-8.6-5.i386.rpm (19kb)
• 64-bit: Lasso-Professional-Apache2-8.6-5.x86_64.rpm (24Kb)

A documentation rpm is also available: Lasso-Documentation-8.6-5.i386.rpm (9.1Mb)

Installation using yum

Please see this tech note if you have difficulties with Lasso Professional 8.6 not starting on boot.

If you had 8.6b3, please uninstall first.

To get the names of any previous packages, execute the following:

rpm -qa | grep Lasso

then remove each packages with:

rpm -e name-of-package

before performing the yum install as noted below. [Uninstall tips kindly provided by Steffan Cline]

To install Lasso Professional Server 8.6 via yum, the LassoSoft yum repository must be configured on the server. Create /etc/yum.repos.d/LassoSoft.repo if it doesn't already exist and enter the following:

[lassosoft]
name=LassoSoft 
baseurl=http://centosyum.lassosoft.com/ 
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=0

To install Lasso Professional Server on CentOS 5 32-bit:

yum install Lasso-Professional-Apache2

To install Lasso Professional Server on CentOS 5 64-bit:

yum install Lasso-Professional-Apache2.x86_64

Updating via yum

To update Lasso Professional Server:

yum update Lasso-Professional

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