5 Installation of a binary packages

The software is developed on Fedora 13 GNU/Linux and distributed as RPM packages for this OS and x86 architecture. The binary bundles for Microsoft Windows XP (x86) and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (x86) are also provided.

5.1 Installation on Fedora 13 and later

For Fedora 11 x86 download the latest binary RPM package and install with

$ yum --nogpgcheck localinstall <binary rpm>

For Fedora 13 x86_64 and later Fedora versions both x86 and x86_64 download source rpm and rebuild it. This may require installation of many development packages. If you don’t want to install those packages you may jump to the next section.

5.2 Installation on generic GNU/Linux

Download the binary bundle and unpack it to any directory you have write access to. Run the software as

$ /path/to/your/directory/ProStack/bin/ProStack

5.3 Installation on MS Windows and Mac OS X

Download the binary bundle for your OS and install it the standard way. On Windows run the downloaded setup program, on Mac copy the application from the mounted disk image to the Applications folder.

5.4 System requirements

The RPM distribution should resolve all dependencies using yum. Bundles should contain everything that is not standard for the underlying platform. To reduce the download size GNU/Linux bundle doesn’t contain things like Perl, Gnuplot and ImageMagick. If you do not have or do not want to install them, some not essential modules will not work.