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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Install a Unix-like system and supporting software</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openacs.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="OpenACS Core Documentation"><link rel="up" href="complete-install.html" title="Chapter 3. Complete Installation"><link rel="previous" href="complete-install.html" title="Chapter 3. Complete Installation"><link rel="next" href="oracle.html" title="Install Oracle 8.1.7"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><a href="http://openacs.org"><img src="/doc/images/alex.jpg" style="border:0" alt="Alex logo"></a><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header" border="0"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="complete-install.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Complete Installation</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="oracle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="unix-installation"></a>Install a Unix-like system and supporting software</h2></div></div></div><div class="authorblurb"><p>by <a class="ulink" href="mailto:joel@aufrecht.org" target="_top">Joel Aufrecht</a></p>
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</div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="unix-install"></a>a Unix-like system</h3></div></div></div><p>Most of the documentation in this section is kept as a
reference. More up-to-date documentation is in the <a class="ulink" href="http://openacs.org/xowiki/openacs-system-install" target="_top">install
sections in the Wiki</a>.
</p><p>You will need a computer running a unix-like system with the following software installed:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>tdom</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>tcl --if you plan to use the OpenACS installation script</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>gmake and the compile and build environment.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">BSD Note</h3><p>BSD users: in most places in these instructions, gmake will work better than make. (<a class="ulink" href="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=136910" target="_top">more
information on FreeBSD installation</a>). Also, fetch is a native replacement for wget.</p></div></li></ul></div><p>Note: Instructions for installing tDOM and threaded Tcl are included with the AOLserver4 installation instructions,
if these are not yet installed.</p><p>The following programs may be useful or required for some configurations. They are included in most distributions:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>emacs</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>cvs (and <a class="link" href="install-cvs.html" title="Initialize CVS (OPTIONAL)">initialize</a> it)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>ImageMagick (used by some packages for server side image manipulation)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Aspell (<a class="ulink" href="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=130549" target="_top">more information on spell-checking</a>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>DocBook and supporting software (and <a class="link" href="psgml-for-emacs.html" title="Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL)">install</a> emacs keybindings for DocBook SGML)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>daemontools (<a class="link" href="install-daemontools.html" title="Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)">install from source</a>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>a Mail Transport Agent, such as exim or sendmail (or <a class="link" href="install-qmail.html" title="Install qmail (OPTIONAL)">install qmail from source</a>)</p></li></ul></div><p>In order to cut and paste the example code into your shell, you must first do <a class="xref" href="install-steps.html#cut-and-paste-name-var" title="Setting a global shell variable for cut and paste">Setting a global shell variable for cut and paste</a>.</p><p>To install a machine to the specifications of the Reference Platform, do the
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