Installation: Prerequisites

System Requirements

A Virtual Server (VM) or Machine with at least:

1. 64-bit architecture
2. 15G of memory
3. 10G of disk space on the root drive
4. 30-300G of disk space on a drive mounted at /opt, depending on the files you plan to ingest - low end for images/text, high end for audio/video

Software Requirements

1. CentOS, Version 6.5 minimal install from any mirror CentOS-6.5-x86_64-minimal.iso OR Ubuntu, Version 12.04 Its (Precise Pangolin)ubuntu-12.04.3-server-amd64.iso.

Steps

1. Use bash as your shell.
2. Make sure your user has full sudo privileges (with or without password).
3. Check to be sure that your environment contains a $USER variable.
   echo $USER should return your current user name.
4. Set a $HYDRA_NAME variable to be the name of this hydra head, HydraDAM. echo "HYDRA_NAME=hydradam" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
   and load it into your shell environment
   source /etc/environment
5. Set the rails environment ($RAILS_ENV) to production
   echo "RAILS_ENV=production" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
   and load that into your shell environment
   source /etc/environment
6. Create the /opt/install directory

sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt  
mkdir -p /opt/install

Verification Steps

echo $USER should return your current user name
echo $HYDRA_NAME should return "hydradam"
echo $RAILS_ENV should return "production"

Next Step

Proceed to Install Dependencies or return to the Overview page.