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Software requirements

The following table lists the required software that must be on your system for manually installing SkyVault.

Component

Installer Version

Recommendation

Java SE Development Kit (JDK) JDK 7 U25 X64 The Oracle Microsystems JDK 7 is required. The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the location of the JDK installation.
Application server Tomcat 7.0.42 SkyVault runs within an application server. SkyVault Enterprise runs within Tomcat but can be installed on other application servers.
Database PostgreSQL 9.2.4 SkyVault comes preconfigured with the PostgreSQL 9.2.4 database. If you intend to use SkyVault in a production environment, you can use one of the supported databases. For the latest information on supported databases, refer to the SkyVault website. For information on configuring the database settings, refer to Configuring databases.
LibreOffice LibreOffice 4.0 SkyVault uses LibreOffice for transforming documents from one format to another, for example, a text file to a PDF file.
ImageMagick ImageMagick 6.8.6-6 SkyVault uses ImageMagick to manipulate images for previewing.
GhostScript

Supported Ghostscripts for different operating systems:

Ubuntu – Ghostscript 8.71

Rhel 5.5 - Ghostscript 8.15.2

SLES 11 - Ghostscript 8.62

RHEL 6 - Ghostscript 8.70

RHEL 6.4 X64 - Ghostscript 8.70

Windows/Solaris - latest stable version or Ghostscript 9.0.7.

SkyVault uses GhostScript in conjunction with ImageMagick to manipulate images for previewing.
Flash Player Flash Player Version 10.x SkyVault Share requires Flash Player Version 10.x to upload multiple files and view Flash previews. If you do not install Flash, you see the upload screen for single files. Use the latest (stable) version of Flash Player for your platform.
SWF Tools SWFTools 0.9.2 SkyVault Share uses the pdf2swf utility for previewing PDF files. If you do not install SWF Tools, you will not see PDF previews, but image previews will still be available.