# Natural Community Edition 2012 expired **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux, Natural-Installation-and-Setup-on-Open-Systems\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071 "2013-01-09T14:36:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frank\_Neudert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Frank\_Neudert](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Frank_Neudert)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/1 "2013-01-09T14:36:43Z")
Hello, again,as I found in the forum, the key is expired. I have downloaded the Natural Community edition but it says that the License Key has expired. Please help. Thank you. Frank ---
**Author:** ![Cijo\_Joseph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@Cijo\_Joseph](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Cijo_Joseph)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/2 "2013-02-08T23:36:53Z")
Hello, I hope your problem is solved by now, if not please have a look at an old post in the forum from 2009 as shown below as quote. I am a student at the university of Canberra, Australia and am trying to study ADABAS and NATURAL on my own (Just got it installed on my machine). Hope to get help from the forum in the near future. regards, Cijo Joseph. > [@Mick Fitzpatrick](#): > > ok so I appear to have figured it out - though I’m sure that with a little help from this forum, and especially SAG, this could have been done a lot sooner. But apparently we’re on our own. So for those who posted here having similar trouble to me here’s what worked. > > I believe this only works if you had a previously expired license for Natural and you just need the new license. > > First, request a fresh download of the community edition as you previously did. > > Second, ignore pretty much everything that comes with it especially whatever it says in the body of the email about Clicking here to Download the Community edition. > > Instead just save the XML file that was attached to the email. That is the new license you need. ---
**Author:** ![Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Henrik_Hermansen1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/3 "2013-03-12T10:18:11Z")
I just requested a renewal and got a mail with the download link and license file. The installer asks for the license file, but the license file I received in the mail does not seem valid. It’s named Natural\_CE\_63.7z as opposed to the old \*.xml ones. Is that the problem / how can I make it work? Henrik (back again!) ---
**Author:** ![Finn\_the\_Dane1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/finn_the_dane1/32/132_2.png) [@Finn\_the\_Dane1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Finn_the_Dane1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/4 "2013-03-12T10:26:59Z")
Hi Henrik 7z ~= zip You will most probably be able to open it directly, otherwise donwload from [http://www.7-zip.org/](http://www.7-zip.org/) Finn ---
**Author:** ![Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Henrik_Hermansen1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 10:48am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/5 "2013-03-12T10:48:42Z")
Hi Finn - nice to see you 🙂 Thanks for your advise. It worked after downloading, installing and running 7-zip. So I learned something new again today. An interesting way to wrap an xml file btw 😉 Henrik the Viking ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/natural-community-edition-2012-expired/102071/6 "2021-04-02T15:02:44Z")