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Th.lauke@arcor.de: links added, formatting harmonized

2024-02-19T11:53:11Z

links added, formatting harmonized

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

2017-09-08T13:01:26Z

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

2017-09-06T15:59:06Z

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

2017-09-06T15:57:40Z

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

2017-09-06T15:57:11Z

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

2017-09-06T15:56:02Z

Updated required software

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.

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

2015-10-14T12:58:01Z

Rwf1v07@soton.ac.uk: /* Microsoft Word */

2015-02-12T09:37:07Z

‎Microsoft Word

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

2012-03-15T12:44:48Z

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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.
-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===
-'''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====
-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====
-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====
-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:
 * [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://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]

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 {{manual}}
 [[Category:Installation]]
 ==What Additional Software does EPrints Require?==

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 ==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://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ MySQL] (or [https://downloads.mariadb.org/ MariaDB])
 * [https://www.perl.org/get.html Perl]
 * [https://perl.apache.org/download/ mod_perl]

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

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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.

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 ==Where to get the Required Software==
 ==Other Tools==
 ===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.
-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
 ===Full Text 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====
 ====Microsoft Word====
 ====HTML====
 ===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.
-<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.
 ==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]

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−	~~{{development}}~~
	{{manual}}		{{manual}}
	[[Category:Installation]]		[[Category:Installation]]

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 <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]