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QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
QNX Software Center Advanced Topics
This chapter guides you through tasks that you may have to perform only on occasion. It also discusses how to address potential connectivity or license activation issues.
Configure the default location of the license directory
By default, QSC manages user licenses in the directory ~/.qnx/license, which is inside the user directory.

QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
- myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
  This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
  - Introduction
    Together, the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center make it easy to license, download, install, and maintain QNX software products. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a small development shop with a handful of developers or a large OEM with globally distributed software teams. Either way, these tools will maximize the efficiency of your license administrators and enable all of your developers to stay up to date with the latest QNX software tools and components.
  - Create Your myQNX Account
    To use the myQNX License Manager or the QNX Software Center, you must first create a myQNX account. Setup is easy and takes only a few minutes.
  - Important Terms and Definitions
    This section covers important definitions that can help you better understand how to use QNX licenses.
  - Using the myQNX License Manager
    The myQNX License Manager lets you take centralized control of the QNX licensing for your organization. It reduces the hard work of managing licenses for large software teams to a few simple tasks that you can perform from a single, easy-to-use control panel:
  - Using the QNX Software Center
    The QNX Software Center provides a secure, efficient way to discover, install, and manage software products distributed by QNX. It replaces traditional command-line procedures with a graphical user interface that takes the guesswork out of managing product dependencies. It also lets you create patch sets: specific configurations of QNX products, patches, and updates that enable development teams to reproduce issues and standardize on the same software base.
  - QNX Software Center Advanced Topics
    This chapter guides you through tasks that you may have to perform only on occasion. It also discusses how to address potential connectivity or license activation issues.
    - Import packages or package archives from your local filesystem
      You may need to use the QNX Software Center on a workstation that has no Internet connection or that has restricted access to external websites. If so, you can obtain packages or package archives for offline installation, store them on your local filesystem, and then import them into the QNX Software Center to add or modify QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installations.
    - Perform manual product activation
      If you install the QNX Software Development Platform or other QNX products on a development host without an Internet connection, you must activate the products manually.
    - Export and import patch sets
      The QNX Software Center lets you export and import patch sets.
    - Migrate from an evaluation license to a commercial license
      When you migrate from an evaluation license to a commercial license, activation of your commercial license key typically occurs automatically. Follow these steps only if auto-activation fails, in which case the QNX Software Center will display an activation error message.
    - Transfer a named user license to another user or workstation
      If you have a named user license that must be deployed to another user, you must deactivate the corresponding product on your workstation. The license administrator can then deploy the license to the other user. Likewise, if you need to change workstations (for instance, you are upgrading to a new machine), you must, on the old machine, deactivate any product covered by a named user license. You can then reactivate the product on the new machine.
    - Manage secure storage of your myQNX credentials
      When it launches, the QNX Software Center displays a login dialog that prompts you for your myQNX credentials. The dialog includes a Save password to disk option, which saves your credentials in an encrypted form, using Eclipse secure storage. This secure storage feature lets you log in automatically whenever you subsequently launch the QNX Software Center.
    - Configure your proxy settings
      If you launch the QNX Software Center and see a popup dialog like the one below, your workstation probably sits behind a proxy server.
    - Trust certificates from your proxy server
      Sometimes, the QNX Software Center won’t access the myQNX server, even after you’ve configured your proxy settings correctly. This issue may occur if your proxy server rewrites SSL certificates for secure HTTPS remote hosts, in which case the QNX Software Center won’t trust the certificate that returns from the proxy.
    - Verify and Repair
      The QNX Software Center's Verify Installation feature provides options to diagnose and repair installation issues. For instance, you can remove unexpected files. You can also return a modified installed package to its original state, restoring any files that have been changed or deleted. The QNX Software Center's Repair option simply un-installs and re-installs the selected package.
    - Delete imported package data that you no longer need
    - Access inaccessible packages
      The All tab displays all packages, including inaccessible packages that you can't currently view or install through the Updates tab or Available tab. A package may appear as inaccessible for several reasons. For instance, the package is an update to a product with an expired support plan, or the package is experimental and you have disabled installation of experimental packages.
    - Perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and QNX SDP
      Using the QNX Software Center command line, you can perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP). This technique is especially useful if you intend to deploy QNX SDP on a headless build server.
    - Deploy installations of QNX SDP for use by large development teams
      Using the QNX Software Center's Deploy Installation feature, you can create installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) that can be maintained through configuration management, copied to a shared drive, or otherwise be made accessible to members of a large development team.
    - Make the most of technical support
      If you ever experience an issue that may require technical support, here are a few things you can do to help resolve the issue as fast as possible:
    - Configure the default location of the license directory
      By default, QSC manages user licenses in the directory ~/.qnx/license, which is inside the user directory.
  - Using the QNX Software Center Command Line
    The qnxsoftwarecenter_clt script lets you run the QNX Software Center from the command line. The script uses the same infrastructure as the QNX Software Center’s GUI.
  - Manifest Reports & File Lookup
    Using the QNX Software Center, you can create manifest reports for any QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installation, or for any QNX target image that resides on your target hardware or development host.
  - Glossary
    To make best use of the QNX Software Center, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the center's user interface and documentation.
- Creating and Deploying Installations of QNX SDP in Large Organizations
  This guide is intended for system administrators and developers who need to perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), or who need to create deployed installations of QNX SDP.
- QNX Software Center Technotes
  These technotes explain how to work around many issues with using the QNX Software Center.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Configure the default location of the license directory

By default, QSC manages user licenses in the directory ~/.qnx/license, which is inside the user directory.

To change this location, use the environment variable QNX_CONFIGURATION_EXCLUSIVE. The variable must point to the parent of license directory, i.e., QNX_CONFIGURATION_EXCLUSIVE=/opt/qnx. In this case, the licenses are in the directory /opt/qnx/license, which must be a location where QSC can write to.

QSC ignores the value of QNX_CONFIGURATION if it is set.

Page updated: February 04, 2025