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Legacy BTS Site manager on Linux
27/06/2025
EUTRAN, LTE, Mobile Networks, Notes, Software
BTS Site Manager, EUTRAN, Java,
LTE, Nokia, RAN
Another post in the “vendors thought Java would last forever but the web would just a fad” series, this one
on getting Nokia BTS Site Manager (which is used to administer the pre-Airscale Nokia base stations) running
on a modern Linux distro.
For starters we get the installers (you’ll need to get these from Nokia), and install openjdk-8-jre using
whichever package manager your distro supports.
Once that’s installed, then extract the installer folder (Like BTS Site Manager
FL18_BTSSM_0000_000434_000000-20250323T000206Z-001.zip).
Inside the extracted folder we’ve got a path like:
BTS Site Manager FL18_BTSSM_0000_000434_000000-20250323T000206Z-001/BTS Site
Manager FL18_BTSSM_0000_000434_000000/C_Element/SE_UICA/Setup
The Setup folder contains a bunch of binaries.
We make these executable:
chmod +x BTSSiteEM-FL18-0000_000434_000000*
Then run the binary:
sudo ./BTSSiteEM-FL18-0000_000434_000000_x64.bin
By default it installs to /opt/Nokia/Managers/BTS\ Site/BTS\ Site\ Manager
And we’re done. Your OS may or may not have built a link to the app in your “start menu” / launcher.
You can use one BTS manager to manage several different versions of software, but you need the definitions
for those software loaded.
If you want to load the Releases for other versions (Like other FLF or FL releases) the simplest way is just to
install the BTS site manager for those versions and just use the latest, then you’ll get the table of installed versions in the “About” section that you can administer.