2.2. JBoss EAP 6 Installation Prerequisites

Set up an account on the Red Hat Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com. For more information, see Section 1.3, “About the Red Hat Customer Portal”.

Review the supported configurations and ensure your system is supportable: https://access.redhat.com/articles/111663.

Ensure that your system is up to date with Red Hat issued updates and errata.

Administration privileges for the installation directory.

Ensure that a supported Java development kit has been installed.

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.

Register the server on the Red Hat Network (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6) or using Red Hat Subscription Manager (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7). For more information on the registration process, see the Using and Configuring Red Hat Subscription Manager guide at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/RHSM/index.html

Ensure that a supported Java development kit has been installed. The Java development kit RPM must provide and export the java capability to the system.

Subscribe to the following channels, which apply to all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all architectures:

If the host architecture is ppc64 subscribe to the following channel/repository.

If the host architecture is x86_64 there are no extra prerequisites.

For the list of packages that must be installed in order to use JBoss EAP with a dependency, see Section A.3, “RPM Package List for JBoss EAP 6”.