Chapter 3. System Requirements

3.1. JBoss EAP 6 Installation Prerequisites

Each installation process for JBoss EAP 6 has a number of prerequisites. This section covers the common requirements, as well as those that are installation specific.

Common Prerequisites

ZIP/Installer Prerequisites

  • Administration privileges for the installation directory.
  • Ensure that the chosen JDK has been extracted (or installed). Refer to the JDK's documentation for information on how to do this.
  • On Microsoft Windows Server, ensure that the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables have been set, otherwise shortcuts will not work.
  • On Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, ensure that an unzip utility has been installed.

RPM Prerequisites

  • Register the server on the Red Hat Network.
  • Subscribe to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server base software channel appropriate to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.
  • Subscribe to the JBoss Application Platform for Server sub-channel, in the JBoss Enterprise Platform group.
  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JDK 6 must be installed, even if JDK 7 only is to be used. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and higher, only a JDK 7 is required. This can be obtained by subscribing to the supplementary software channel for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation. For example; the channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 installed on i386 architecture is rhel-i386-server-supplementary-6.

ppc64 Prerequisites

  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, subscribe to the rhel-ppc64-server-optional-6 channel.
  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, subscribe to the rhel-7-server-optional-rpms-7Server repository.