Then came the license. He had a Concurrent Use license floating on the institute’s license manager, a cranky server in a closet named LICENSE-BEAST . He typed in the hostname. NOTFOUND . His heart sank. He pinged it. Nothing. A quick trip down the hall to reboot the license server. A prayer to the networking gods. Finally: LICENSE-BEAST:27000 . The green checkmark appeared. He exhaled.
For a visual walkthrough of the download and extraction process, watch this step-by-step guide: install arcgis 10.8