Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.8) 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 1.3.8

Operating Systems

VDT 1.3.8 is supported on:

• RedHat 7
• RedHat 9
• Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS
• Fedora Core 3
• Fedora Core 4
• ROCKS Linux 3.3
• Fermi Scientific Linux 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS ia64
• SuSE Linux 9 ia64
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS amd64

It may work on other Linux releases but we do not guarantee it.

The VDT does not support SELinux though some of our supported platforms (Fedora Core 4) come with SELinux enabled by default. Be sure to disable SELinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux before installing the VDT.

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. Additionally, some software packages are starting to drop support for RedHat 7. See our list of known problems and contents list for more information.

Disk space

VDT 1.3.8 takes different amounts of space depending on the subset of the VDT you install. The complete VDT requires at least 1.5GB.

Pre-installed Software

• Pacman The VDT is installed with Pacman. For VDT 1.3.8 we require Pacman 3.15 or greater. Earlier versions will not work.
• Perl The VDT requires perl 5.6.1 or greater.
• tar Any version of tar is fine. We do not require GNU tar.
• diff+patch The VDT uses diff and patch--any recent version is sufficient.