Installation

The following instructions cover dependencies, source code and configuration.

Requirements

The minimum requirements are:

• The Java Development Kit version 7. Either the Oracle JDK or the Open JDK . You might already have Java installed. Open a command prompt and try typing java.
• The MongoDB database. The latest tested version should be 2.2.6.

If you would like to use the extractor functionality (which is true in most cases), you will also need:

• The RabbitMQ event bus. Different packages are available for specific operating systems. Requires Erlang. Erlang is installed with most package as a dependency.

For text-based search functionality the following is required:

• The Elasticsearch distributed search service. Requires Java.

For content-based search the following is required:

• The Versus service.