# Acquire and install enterprise licenses

To use Pentaho products, you must acquire and install enterprise licenses that can be verified with a license server.

Consider whether the following situations apply to your environment:

* If you cannot use a cloud or local license server in your environment, please review alternatives with your Pentaho representative. You might incur additional charges for manual audits.
* If you are upgrading from any previous 10.x version to Pentaho 10.2, then additional entitlements might be required. Please contact your customer support representative for details.
* If you are an existing customer wanting to upgrade from Pentaho 9.x or earlier supported versions, do not start the server before upgrading the licenses. You must install the new version of the product before activating the licenses.

Complete the following steps to acquire and install enterprise licenses:

1. Contact the Pentaho Sales team to purchase enterprise licenses for Pentaho products.

   After you purchase your Pentaho enterprise licenses, you receive an email with and activation ID or cloud license server information that can be used to unlock the product.

   **Note:** The activation ID is used only for a trial license. For information about a trial license see **Acquire a trial license** in the **Try Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics** guide.
2. Choose the type of license server to use for verifying Pentaho product licenses.
   * If you do not have security restrictions that prevent you from accessing a cloud license server, use the Pentaho cloud license server.
   * If you cannot use the Pentaho cloud license server, install a local license server behind your firewall to use for verifying licenses. For instructions on installing a local license server, see [Install a local license server on Linux](/install/10.2-install/pentaho-installation-overview-cp/acquire-and-install-enterprise-licenses/install-and-manage-a-local-license-server/install-a-local-license-server-linux.md).

     **Note:** If your environment has security restrictions that prevent the license server from reaching the back office URL, use offline activation. See [Activate offline entitlements for a local license server](/install/10.2-install/pentaho-installation-overview-cp/acquire-and-install-enterprise-licenses/install-and-manage-a-local-license-server/activate-offline-entitlements-for-a-local-license-server.md).
3. Install Pentaho product licenses.

   For instructions on installing licenses, see [Install licenses using PUC](https://github.com/pentaho/documentation/blob/main/PDIA/10.2/Install/Pentaho%20installation/Pentaho%20Installation%20\(overview%20cp\)/Acquire%20and%20install%20enterprise%20licenses/Install%20licenses%20using%20PUC=GUID-BBFF7838-ED4A-4252-803F-A90041648CA8=5=en=.md) or [Install licenses using the PDI client](/install/10.2-install/pentaho-installation-overview-cp/acquire-and-install-enterprise-licenses/install-licenses-using-the-pdi-client.md).


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