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 downloaded from the CPAN.

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

It is not installable under Windows systems, as there is no RSPerl module for Windows.

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>

You also need one of:

Application	Version	URL	License	Source build	Binary packages	Remarks
Grid Engine	>=5.3, >= 6 recommended	http://gridengine.sunsource.net/	Sun Industry Standards Source License		recommended
Sun N1 Grid Engine	>= 6	http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/	commercial	not available

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 We highly ecommend to use binary packages of your operating system Distribution or CPAN-shell install for the Perl modules, except where stated otherwise.

Module	Version	License	Download	Remarks
CGI	3.x		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-3.11.tar.gz
HTML::Template	> 2.6	Artistic	http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SAMTREGAR/HTML-Template-2.7.tar.gz
Config::IniFiles	2.x		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GC/GCARLS/Config-IniFiles-2.39.tar.gz
GD	>= 2.12		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.30.tar.gz	Requires GD system library
MailTools	>= 1.67		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-1.67.tar.gz
Digest::MD5	>=2.33		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.33.tar.gz
HTML::Table	2.x		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AJ/AJPEACOCK/HTML-Table-2.02.tar.gz
PDL	>= 2.4.2		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CS/CSOE/PDL-2.4.2.tar.gz	/!\ Do not use CPAN shell or packaged install, see HowToInstallPdl
PDL::IO::HDF5	>= 0.3		http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CE/CERNEY/PDL-IO-HDF5-0.3.tar.gz

R-packages

R packages should be installed via the R CMD INSTALL method.Consult the Administration and Installation Guide for R for more details on how to install R-packages.

Package	Version	Download	License	Remarks
sma	>=0.5	CRAN mirrors	GPL
amap	>= 0.5	CRAN mirrors	GPL

Language interfaces

Package	Version	Download	Remarks
RSPerl	>=0.9-1	http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/index.html	see HowToInstallRSPerl

Web-server software

Database software