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	In brief, EPrints minimally requires Apache (with mod_perl), MySQL and Perl with some extra modules. Various utilities like wget, tar and unzip would also be useful.		In brief, EPrints minimally requires Apache (with mod_perl), MySQL and Perl with some extra modules. Various utilities like wget, tar and unzip would also be useful.

	EPrints bundles some Perl modules which it uses, to save you installing them.		EPrints bundles some [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/blob/master/cpan_modules.pl Perl modules] which it uses, to save you installing them.


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	===File uploads===		===File uploads===
	~~'''~~wget~~'''~~, ~~'''~~tar~~'''~~, ~~'''~~gunzip~~'''~~ and ~~'''~~unzip~~'''~~ are required to allow users to upload files as .tar.gz or .zip or to ~~captures~~ them from a URL.		<tt>wget</tt>, <tt>tar</tt>, <tt>gunzip</tt> and <tt>unzip</tt> are required to allow users to upload files as <tt>.tar.gz</tt> or <tt>.zip</tt> or to capture them from a URL.

	These all come installed with most modern versions of linux. If you cannot get them working, you can remove the option by editing "archive_formats" in SystemSettings.pm		These all come installed with most modern versions of linux. If you cannot get them working, you can remove the relevant option by editing "archive_formats" in <tt>SystemSettings.pm</tt>

	If there are problems you may need to tweak how these are invoked in SystemSettings.pm		If there are problems you may need to tweak how these are invoked in <tt>SystemSettings.pm</tt>.


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	====PDF====		====PDF====
	Full text indexing PDF documents requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> application provided by the '''poppler-utils''' Deb or RPM package.		Full text indexing PDF documents requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> application provided by the ''poppler-utils'' Deb or RPM package.

	====Microsoft Word====		====Microsoft Word====
	Full ~~test~~ indexing of Microsoft Word documents is provided by the ~~<tt>~~antiword~~</tt>~~ Deb or RPM package. The RPM package is available through the [https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el7.rpm forensics] RPM repository/		Full text indexing of Microsoft Word documents is provided by the ''antiword'' Deb or RPM package. The RPM package is available through the [https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el7.rpm forensics] RPM repository.

	====HTML====		====HTML====
	Full test indexing of HTML documents requires the <tt>lynx</tt> text-based browser provided by the '''lynx'' Deb or RPM package.		Full test indexing of HTML documents requires the <tt>lynx</tt> text-based browser provided by the ''lynx'' Deb or RPM package.


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	Often the best way to find certain packages of other platforms is to use a search engine to look for the package name for Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux along with the name of your platform. (E.g. antiword Arch Linux). If you platform does not have comparable packages, then the next best option is to download the software tool is the official site. Below are links to the download pages for the essential components of EPrints:		Often the best way to find certain packages of other platforms is to use a search engine to look for the package name for Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux along with the name of your platform. (E.g. antiword Arch Linux). If you platform does not have comparable packages, then the next best option is to download the software tool is the official site. Below are links to the download pages for the essential components of EPrints:
	* [https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Apache]		* [https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Apache]
	* [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB])		* [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB]) as well as [https://www.postgresql.org/download/ PostgreSQL] and even [https://www.oracle.com/de/downloads/ ORACLE]
	* [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]		* [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]
	* [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]		* [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 13:01, 8 September 2017

2017-09-08T13:01:26Z

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	{{manual}}		{{manual}}
	[[Category:Installation]]		[[Category:Installation]]


	==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==		==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 15:59, 6 September 2017

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	==Other Platforms==		==Other Platforms==
	Often the best way to find certain packages of other platforms is to use a search engine to look for the package name for Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux along with the name of your platform. (E.g. antiword Arch Linux). If you platform does not have comparable packages, then the next best option is to download the software tool is the official site:		Often the best way to find certain packages of other platforms is to use a search engine to look for the package name for Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux along with the name of your platform. (E.g. antiword Arch Linux). If you platform does not have comparable packages, then the next best option is to download the software tool is the official site. Below are links to the download pages for the essential components of EPrints:
	* [https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Apache]		* [https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Apache]
	* [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB])		* [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB])
	* [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]		* [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]
	* [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]		* [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 15:57, 6 September 2017

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	====PDF====		====PDF====
	Full text indexing PDF documents requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> application provided by the '''poppler-utils''' Deb or RPM package.		Full text indexing PDF documents requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> application provided by the '''poppler-utils''' Deb or RPM package.


	====Microsoft Word====		====Microsoft Word====
	Full test indexing of Microsoft Word documents is provided by the <tt>antiword</tt> Deb or RPM package. The RPM package is available through the [https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el7.rpm forensics] RPM repository/		Full test indexing of Microsoft Word documents is provided by the <tt>antiword</tt> Deb or RPM package. The RPM package is available through the [https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el7.rpm forensics] RPM repository/


	====HTML====		====HTML====

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 15:57, 6 September 2017

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	==Where to get the Required Software==		==Where to get the Required Software==
	Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl are all provided as operating system level packages that can be installed on EPrints' [[Recommended Platforms]]. If you wish to install on a platform that is not recommended, then you will need to determine the best way to install these applications. It may be possible to infer comparable OS packages by checking the dependencies installed on [[Installing EPrints on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS\|Red Hat based]] and [[Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu\|Debian based]] Linux.		Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl are all provided as operating system level packages that can be installed on EPrints' [[Recommended Platforms]]. If you wish to install on a platform that is not recommended, then you will need to determine the best way to install these applications. It may be possible to infer comparable packages for your platform by checking the dependencies installed on [[Installing EPrints on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS\|Red Hat based]] and [[Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu\|Debian based]] Linux.

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Updated required software

2017-09-06T15:56:02Z

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	==Where to get the Required Software==		==Where to get the Required Software==
			Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl are all provided as operating system level packages that can be installed on EPrints' [[Recommended Platforms]]. If you wish to install on a platform that is not recommended, then you will need to determine the best way to install these applications. It may be possible to infer comparable OS packages by checking the dependencies installed on [[Installing EPrints on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS\|Red Hat based]] and [[Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu\|Debian based]] Linux.

	Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl are all provided as operating system level packages that can be installed on EPrints' [[Recommended Platforms]]. If you wish to install on a unrecommended platform, then you will need to determine the best way to install these applications. It may be possible to infer comparable OS packages by checking the dependencies installed on [[Installing EPrints on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS\|Red Hat based]] and [[Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu\|Debian based]] Linux.

	==Other Tools==		==Other Tools==

	===File uploads===		===File uploads===

	'''wget''', '''tar''', '''gunzip''' and '''unzip''' are required to allow users to upload files as .tar.gz or .zip or to captures them from a URL.		'''wget''', '''tar''', '''gunzip''' and '''unzip''' are required to allow users to upload files as .tar.gz or .zip or to captures them from a URL.

	These all come installed with most modern versions of linux. If you ~~can't~~ get them working, you can remove the option by editing "archive_formats" in SystemSettings.pm		These all come installed with most modern versions of linux. If you cannot get them working, you can remove the option by editing "archive_formats" in SystemSettings.pm

	~~Tested with wget 1.6~~.		If there are problems you may need to tweak how these are invoked in SystemSettings.pm

	~~If there are problems you may need to tweak how these are invoked in SystemSettings.pm~~

	===Full Text Indexing===		===Full Text Indexing===

	The EPrints indexer requires various tools to extract plain (UTF-8) text from different types of document for indexing.		The EPrints indexer requires various tools to extract plain (UTF-8) text from different types of document for indexing.

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	====PDF====		====PDF====
			Full text indexing PDF documents requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> application provided by the '''poppler-utils''' Deb or RPM package.

	~~Requires <tt>pdftotext</tt> which is part of the [http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ xpdf] package.~~

	~~FC% yum install xpdf~~

	====Microsoft Word====		====Microsoft Word====
			Full test indexing of Microsoft Word documents is provided by the <tt>antiword</tt> Deb or RPM package. The RPM package is available through the [https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el7.rpm forensics] RPM repository/

	~~<s>Requires <tt>wvText</tt> which is part of the [http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ wvWare] package.</s>~~

	~~<s>FC% yum install wv</s>~~

	~~Requires <tt>antiword</tt>, available from http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ (from 3.3 onwards, antiword is only used as a Word -> PDF converter so not strictly necessary)~~

	~~[http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/antiword/ antiword RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora]~~

	====HTML====		====HTML====
			Full test indexing of HTML documents requires the <tt>lynx</tt> text-based browser provided by the '''lynx'' Deb or RPM package.

	~~Requires the <tt>lynx</tt> tool (a text based browser)~~

	~~FC% yum install lynx~~

	===LaTeX Tools===		===LaTeX Tools===

	There is an optional feature which allows you to instruct EPrints to look in certain fields (e.g. title and abstract) for strings that look like LaTeX equations and render them as images. These tools are only required if you want to use this feature.		There is an optional feature which allows you to instruct EPrints to look in certain fields (e.g. title and abstract) for strings that look like LaTeX equations and render them as images. These tools are only required if you want to use this feature.

	~~<tt>~~latex~~</tt>~~ and ~~<tt>dvips</tt> should already be available on Fedora Core~~ and ~~RHEL; if not:~~		These are provided by the ''tetex-latex'' and ''ImageMagick'' RPMs or the ''texlive-base'', ''texlive-bin'' and ''imagemagick'' Deb packages.

	~~FC% yum install tetex-latex~~		This is a "cosmetic" feature, it only affects the rendering of information, so you can always add it later if you want to save time initially.

	~~<tt>convert</tt> (part~~ of ~~the [ ImageMagick] package) should already be available on Fedora Core and RHEL;~~ if ~~not:~~

	~~FC% yum install ImageMagick~~

	~~This is a "cosmetic" feature, it only affects the rendering of information, so you can always add it later if you want to save time initially.~~

	==Other Platforms==		==Other Platforms==
			Often the best way to find certain packages of other platforms is to use a search engine to look for the package name for Red Hat or Ubuntu Linux along with the name of your platform. (E.g. antiword Arch Linux). If you platform does not have comparable packages, then the next best option is to download the software tool is the official site:
	~~The~~ best ~~place~~ to ~~get~~ a software tool is the official site~~, but we've put a mirror of versions known to work at~~: ~~http~~://~~www~~.~~eprints~~.org/~~files/tools/ - you don't need to install ''everything'' in the tools directory - just those described below~~.		* [https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Apache]
			* [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB])
	* [~~[Installing~~ MySQL]]		* [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]
	* [~~[Installing mod_perl]~~]		* [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]
	* [~~[Installing~~ Perl ~~modules]~~]
	* [~~[Installing GDOME~~]~~] (optional but recommended)~~

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Updated instructions to remove most Fedora 5 references.

2017-09-06T11:31:46Z

Updated instructions to remove most Fedora 5 references.

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 [[Category:Installation]]
 ==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==
-In brief, EPrints requires Apache (with mod_perl), MySQL and Perl with some extra modules. Ideally you also want wget, tar and unzip.
+In brief, EPrints minimally requires Apache (with mod_perl), MySQL and Perl with some extra modules. Various utilities like wget, tar and unzip would also be useful.
-EPrints bundles some perl modules which it uses, to save you installing them.
+EPrints bundles some Perl modules which it uses, to save you installing them.
-Almost all of the required software can be obtained through the [http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/ yum] (Fedora Core) or up2date (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) software management tools.
+==Where to get the Required Software==
-Fedora Core 5 also has a ''Package Manager'' tool under the ''Applications->Add/Remove Software'' menu.
+Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl are  all provided as operating system level packages that can be installed on EPrints' [[Recommended Platforms]].  If you wish to install on a unrecommended platform, then you will need to determine the best way to install these applications.  It may be possible to infer comparable OS packages by checking the dependencies installed on [[Installing EPrints on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS|Red Hat based]] and [[Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu|Debian based]] Linux.
 ==Other Tools==

Af05v@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 12:58, 14 October 2015

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	{{manual}}		{{manual}}
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Rwf1v07@soton.ac.uk: /* Microsoft Word */

2015-02-12T09:37:07Z

Microsoft Word

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	<s>FC% yum install wv</s>		<s>FC% yum install wv</s>

	Requires <tt>antiword</tt>, available from http://www.winfield.demon.nl/		Requires <tt>antiword</tt>, available from http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ (from 3.3 onwards, antiword is only used as a Word -> PDF converter so not strictly necessary)

	[http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/antiword/ antiword RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora]		[http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/antiword/ antiword RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora]

Sf03r@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 12:44, 15 March 2012

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			'''Not that this page is OUT OF DATE... Do NOT install GDOME.'''

	==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==		==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==