Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.6) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

System requirements for VDT 1.3.6

Operating Systems

VDT 1.3.6 is supported on RedHat 7.x, RedHat 9.0, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS, Fedora Core 3, vanilla ROCKS 3.3, Fermi Scientific Linux 3.0 and Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge) on the x86 processor family. It may work on other Linux releases but we do not guarantee it. The VDT will not install on the x86-64.

We try to make all software in the VDT work on all of our supported platforms. In the long run we succeed, but there are sometimes problems with newer packages. See our list of known problems

Disk space

VDT 1.3.6 takes different amounts of space depending on the subset of the VDT you install. The complete VDT requires 1.1GB.

Pre-installed Software

• Pacman The VDT is installed with Pacman. For VDT 1.3.6 we recommend using Pacman 3.11. Pacman 3.02 or higher should work as well.
• Python Pacman 3.11 requires Python 1.5.2 or later. This should be included in any modern Linux distribution. An easy way to check the version you have is to run python, then type control-D to exit

  % python
  Python 1.5.2 (#3, Jun 11 2001, 17:43:55)  [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
  Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
  >>> ^D
  

• gcc Although most of the VDT is installed as binaries the GNU C compiler (gcc) is required for a few portions of the installation. We recommend using the gcc that is distributed with your operating system. For RedHat 7.2 that is gcc 2.96. For RedHat 9.0 that is gcc 3.2.2.
• Perl The VDT requires a complete Perl installation which allows you to build and install new modules.
• tar Make sure that you are using the GNU tar version 1.13.12 or later.
• patch The VDT uses patch--any recent version is sufficient.