EMMAWiki/AdministratorDocumentation/SoftwareRequirements

Software Requirements

Synopsis

This page is intended for system administrators who intend to install the EMMA-server on a vanilla system. When you install e.g. on a LINUX box you will find all or most of the required software in the distribution. Then you can use the package-management of that system (commands like: rpm, emerge, package_add,...) to install the software. Please consult the documentation provided by your operating system vendor on how to install software. Perl modules can be installed using the CPAN shell.

Requirements

We list only the software and the minimum required version which is needed to run the server here. Where special setup options are required for a software it is listed.

Operating systems

As a Perl application emma should in principle be platform independent. It has been tested with these operating systems or distributions:

• Solaris 9
• SuSE-Linux >= 9
• Gentoo-Linux
• FreeBSD > 5.3

Required libraries

Library	Version	Download URL	License	Source build	Binary packages	Remarks
HDF5	1.6.x	http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/obtain5.html	University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License	{configure, make}	Available	Only C-API required

Applications

Application	Version	Download URL	License	Source build	Binary packages	Remarks
ImageMagick	6.2.x	http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php	GPL compatible	{configure, make}	Available	<-2>

Programming languages

Application	Version	Download URL	License	Source build	Binary packages	Remarks
Perl	> 5.8	http://www.perl.org/get.html	Artistic License or GPL	{configure, make}	Available	We recommend to use binary packages from your Distribution
R	> 2.0	http://www.r-project.org/	GPL	{configure, make}	Available	/!\ Use configure option { --enable-R-shlib } (most binary packages have it)

Perl modules

Module

Version

Download

Remarks

R-packages

Package

Version

Download

Remarks

Language interfaces

Package

Version

Download

Remarks

Web-server software

Database software