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 The official documentation is always up-to-date and maintained, whereas some of these below guidelines are now outdated or even obsolete.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

Mac OS X

Other Linux/Unix Distributions

General Tips / Hints

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