This document lists the required set of software components necessary to run Snow Owl on the x86_64 platform. Components and the corresponding files to download are listed in the sections below.
Snow Owl requires a CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) release 7, or Ubuntu 14.04 installation. We recommend starting with a minimal install and adding packages later, as required.
Terminology contents are persisted using the 5.7 series of MySQL Community Server, downloadable from MySQL’s yum repository. Select “Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 7 (Architecture independent), RPM package” for download.
Snow Owl uses version 8 update 121 of the Java SE Development Kit; An installable archive can be downloaded from the JDK8 download page. Select the “Linux x64” edition.
Authentication and authorization of browsers, terminology editors, reviewers and administrators is performed through an OpenLDAP version 2.4.x LDAP server.
Browsing and managing ApacheDS instances can be done through the Apache Directory Studio application. We recommend installing the latest release from the corresponding Downloads page on Apache’s website.