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Note: I/O performance for MySQL is critical to the responsiveness of the application. The fastest SSD you can specify will help, as will having direct (e.g. not virtualised) access to it.

Prerequisite Software

Operating System

Java 7 or later

Maven 3.0.3 or later

MySQL / MariaDB 5.5 or later

Tomcat 7 or later 

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Operating System

VIVO is largely agnostic to the OS that it is running on - as a Java application, it is dependent on having a Java Virtual Machine and a Tomcat servlet container. It should be possible to install and run VIVO on any OS where you are able to provide all of the other software requirements.

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