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Spartan Student Installation Guide

Spartan Student Installation Guide



Spartan Student is a serious molecular modeling package for teaching, and learning, chemistry. Combining Spartan's easy-to-use graphical interface with a targeted set of computational engines, the Student Edition provides fundamental molecular modeling utilities supporting the organic chemistry curriculum.

VPN Required

This software does require a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to function from Off Campus locations

Spartan is a WaveFunction product. For scientific or technical (license issue) support they can be reached at support@wavefun.com.

Steps for macOS

  1. Download SpartanStudentV903.dmg from software.geneseo.edu

  2. Once the file finishes downloading, navigate to your downloads folder and open the .dmg

  3. Drag Spartan Student V9 into your Applications folder.

  4. Open Spartan Student from either Applications or Launchpad.

  5. Click Accept to accept the license agreement.

  6. Click OK. Enter your administrator password in the dialogue that follows.

  7. Spartan Student will now open fully. A dialogue for licensing the software will pop up. Click Launch License Utility.

  8. Select the radio button for Network, then click Next.

  9. Before the license server can be entered, the Sentinel Installer has to run.



    1. Click Next/Continue until you reach the license agreement page. Agree to the license.

    2. Click Continue.

      1. A message will pop up saying that a System Extension has been blocked. Click Open System Preferences.

      2. Click the Lock and enter your administrator credentials.

      3. Click Allow next to the blocked system extension.

      4. Click the Lock and close System Preferences.

    3. Once the installation has finished, return to the Spartan installer and click Next.



  10. Enter spartanlic.geneseo.edu into the box for the license server. Click Next. The software should now be licensed and ready to use.



    1. If Spartan says "A valid license was not found", try clicking Check License.

    2. If that does not work, click Launch License Utility. Replace spartanlic.geneseo.edu with 137.238.2.85

    3. If that still does not work, click Check License again. The software should find the license and become available for use.

Steps for Windows

You may wish to restart your computer before following the steps below, occasionally the license utility fails to install due to a pending reboot.

 

  1. Download SpartanStudentInstaller903.exe from software.geneseo.edu

  2. Once the file finishes downloading, navigate to your downloads folder and double click on SpartanStudentInstaller903

  3. If you are prompted with "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?" click Yes

  4. On the welcome screen click Next.

  5. Read the license terms, then check the box to accept the license agreement, then click Next.

  6. Click Install.

  7. When the Wavefunction License Utility opens, select Network, then click Next.

    Screenshot 2025-10-22 151007-20251022-191007.png

  8. On the welcome screen click Next.

  9. Read the license agreement, then select the option to Accept the license agreement, then click Next.

  10. Click Next.

  11. The Sentinel installer will now run, click Finish when it completes.

  12. When the Wavefunction License Utility opens again, type spartanlic.geneseo.edu into the License Server field, then click Next

    Screenshot 2025-10-22 151103-20251022-191103.png

  13. When you see the notification "Successfully set server to "spartanlic.geneseo.edu" click Done

    Screenshot 2025-10-22 151114-20251022-191114.png

  14. Click Next

  15. Click Finish

  16. Spartan Student is now installed.

  17. If you launch Spartan and it says "A valid license was not found", open the License Utility by clicking Help in the upper right corner and selecting License Utility.

  18. Replace spartanlic.geneseo.edu with 137.238.2.85

  19. Then click Check License again. The software should find the license and become available for use.

Notes