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Installation Prerequisites

Supported Operating Systems

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

  • CentOS 6

  • CentOS 7

  • Fedora 19

  • Ubuntu Server 16.04

  • Windows 8

  • Windows 10

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

Note

A 64-bit version of the OS is required

The following is a list of the operating systems that are not regularly tested but are known to be working:

  • RedHat EL 6

  • RedHat EL 7

  • SuSe Linux 11.1

  • Ubuntu Server 10.04

  • Ubuntu Server 14.04

  • Windows 7

  • Windows Server 2008 R2

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://localhost:8180/SQuORE_Server/eclipse

  • The Oracle Java Runtime Environment version 8 (other versions are not supported)

  • A supported Eclipse version (Luna SR2 and up)

  • Valid credentials to log into a Squore Server

  • At least 4 GB of space available on the disk for a full installation with demo projects

  • 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:

    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,

  • A supported Eclipse version (Luna SR2 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-1.8.0-openjdk

  • perl

  • 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 .

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 16.04.3 LTS, the dependencies are satisfied by the following packages:

Mandatory packages:

  • libdate-calc-perl

  • libhttp-message-perl

  • libjson-perl

  • libwww-perl

  • libxml-parser-perl

  • openjdk-8-jre

  • perl

  • tcl

  • A compatible installation of Eclipse downloaded from http://eclipse.org/downloads .

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