Installing on Yum Compatible Linux Distributions

Installing on Yum Compatible Linux Distributions

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These installation instructions should be compatible with Linux distributions using the Yum package manager, including Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Mandrake, and Yellow Dog.

Installing Prerequisites

Make sure you are a super user:

su
Installing Ant, Maven, ImageMagick and FTP clients

Install the prerequisites available via Yum:

yum install ant maven ImageMagick ftp
Installing the database


REQUIRED: although the details regarding this step are presented on a separate page, they are mandatory for the install to work.

Follow the install instructions for PostgreSQL on PostgreSQL Installation under Linux. The mandatory steps are Installation and Setting Up.

Optionally you can also do the Tuning step to tweak the database and improve performance.

Installing Java JDK

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...And you're done

If you experienced troubles with the installation there are some resources to help you out: