Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
DSpace Installation Guides
In general, we recommend FIRST reading or following the Official DSpace Documentation's "Installing DSpace" section. The official documentation is always up-to-date and maintained, whereas some of these below guidelines are now outdated or even obsolete.
The following are custom/opinionated guides for installing DSpace on various Operating Systems. HOWEVER, be sure to heed the above WARNING – these guides are written by users of DSpace and some may be better maintained than others.
Windows XP / Vista / 7
- Installing DSpace on Windows
- DSpace Windows Install Guide : http://scribd.com/doc/131175971/Installing-DSpace-3-1-on-Windows-7
- DSpace Windows Install Guide (pt_BR) : http://www.slideshare.net/royopa/instalao-dspace-4x-windows
Mac OS X
- Installing DSpace 4.0+ on Mac OSX 10.9 (2014)
- Installing DSpace on Mac OS X (Outdated, for DSpace 1.4)
- Installing DSpace on OSX (2006, OSX 10.4, Java 1.5, quite outdated)
Other Linux/Unix Distributions
- AIX: Installing DSpace on AIX
- Debian:
- FreeBSD: Installing DSpace on FreeBSD
- Gentoo: Installing DSpace On Gentoo
- Mandrake / Mandriva:
- RedHat:
- Installing DSpace on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Redhat package and service management
- Installing DSpace 1.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (using jpackage repository and NO dspace user)
- SuSE: Installing DSpace on SLES9
- Ubuntu:
- Installing DSpace 4.2 on Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 LTS
- Installing DSpace 1.7 on Ubuntu (Simple as it uses tasksel, and NO dspace user)
- Installing DSpace 1.5 on Ubuntu 9.04
- Installing DSpace 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.10 Server
- Installing DSpace 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.04
- Installing DSpace 1.4 on Ubuntu 7.04
- Installing DSpace on Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS)
- Installing DSpace 3.x, 4.x on Linux and Windows (pt_BR)
General Tips / Hints
- If you have a assetstore which may someday contain more that 250K files, or which will exceed 1TB, please take a look at the File System Creation and Sizing Information page.
- Handle Service Startup Scripts for Unix or Linux
- ModJk
- Running DSpace on Standard Ports
- DSpace with Oracle DB test instance