Installation Prerequisites

Supported Operating Systems

The following is a list of the officially supported operating systems:

CentOS 6
Fedora 19
RedHat EL 6
SuSe Linux 11.1
Ubuntu Server 14.04
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2

Supported Database Management Systems

Squore Server can use the following database management systems to store its data:

PostgreSQL 8.4 and up
Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (new in 16.1)

In both cases, it is possible to have database on the same machine as Squore Server or on a remote machine.

Note

When using a database backend on a remote machine, the database administrator is responsible for backing up the database. The backup scripts included in the Squore Server installation will only handle the backup of the data stored on the Squore Server file system in that case. You can find more information about backup strategies for Squore Server in the section called Backup Tools in the Installation and Administration Guide.

For All Systems

For a successful installation of Squore, you will need:

The latest version of the Squore Eclipse Plugin, which can be downloaded from http://eclipse.squoring.com
A user account with system administrator privileges
The Oracle Java Development Kit version 1.7.0_51 or higher
Warning
- Java 1.8 is not supported.
- It is technically possible to run Squore using a 32-bit JDK, however this will limit the memory available to 1GB of RAM to run the application, which will result in poor performance. If you still want to attempt such an installation, consult the troubleshooting page at http://openwiki.squoring.com/index.php/Running_Squore_On_A_32-bit_Java_Installation
An operational Eclipse IDE. The versions currently supported are:
- 3.7 32 bits (Indigo)
- 3.7 64 bits (Indigo)
- 4.2 32 bits (Juno)
- 4.2 64 bits (Juno)
- 4.3 32 bits (Kepler)
- 4.3 64 bits (Kepler)
At least 2 GB of space available on the disk for a full installation
At least 8 GB of RAM on the server machine
At least 4 GB of RAM on the client machine

Packages for Windows

A compatible version of Eclipse must be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ .

Packages for Linux

On Linux platforms, the following must be installed before installing Squore:

Perl version 5.10.1 or greater including the following extra-modules:
- Mandatory packages:
  - Algorithm::Diff [module details]
  - Archive::Zip [module details]
  - Date::Calc [module details]
  - Digest::SHA [module details]
  - HTTP::Request [module details]
  - JSON [module details]
  - LWP::UserAgent [module details]
  - Time::HiRes [module details]
  - XML::Parser [module details]
- Optional packages for working with Microsoft Excel:
  - HTML::Entities [module details]
  - Spreadsheet::BasicRead [module details]
- Optional packages for working with OSLC systems:
  - Date::Parse [module details]
  - WWW::Mechanize [module details]
  - XML::LibXML [module details]
- Optional packages for working with GitHub systems:
  - Date::Parse [module details]
  - Mail::Box::Manager [module details]
  - Mail::Message::Body::Lines [module details]
  - Mail::Message::Construct [module details]
  - Mail::Mbox::MessageParser [module details]
  - Net::GitHub [module details]
- Optional packages for working with Semios/Prometil systems:
  - File::Slurp [module details]
- Optional packages for Advanced CSV Export Management:
  - Text::CSV [module details]
Tip
If some of these modules are not available as packages on your operating system, use your perl installation's cpan to install the modules. Using the OS packages is recommended, as it avoids having to reinstall via cpan after upgrading your version of perl.
Tcl version 8.5 or greater,
An Eclipse installation (Indigo and up)

Packages for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS (6.5 and 7.1), the dependencies are satisfied by the following packages:

Mandatory packages:

java-1.7.0-openjdk
perl
perl-Algorithm-Diff
perl-Archive-Zip
perl-Date-Calc
perl-Digest-SHA
perl-JSON
perl-libwww-perl
perl-Time-HiRes
perl-XML-Parser
tcl
A compatible installation of Eclipse downloaded from http://eclipse.org/downloads .

Optional packages for working with Microsoft Excel:

perl-HTML-Parser
perl-CPAN (CPAN utility requirement)
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (available in the EPEL repository)
perl-Spreadsheet-XLSX (available in the EPEL repository)

Warning

The module Spreadsheet::BasicRead is not available as a package and must therefore be installed using cpan (make sure cpan is properly configured, by running cpan without arguments first):

sudo cpan -i Spreadsheet::BasicRead

Optional packages for working with OSLC systems:

perl-TimeDate
perl-WWW-Mechanize (available in the EPEL repository)
perl-XML-LibXML

Optional packages for working with GitHub systems:

perl-TimeDate
perl-Mail-Box (available in the EPEL repository)
perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser (available in the EPEL repository)
perl-Net-GitHub (available in the EPEL repository)

Optional packages for working with Semios/Prometil systems:

perl-File-Slurp

Optional packages for Advanced CSV Export Management:

perl-Text-CSV (available in the EPEL repository)

For more information about how to install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, consult https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL.

Packages for Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, the dependencies are satisfied by the following packages: