Software

InterMine makes use of a variety of freely available software packages.

Software	At least	Purpose
Git	1.7	check out and update source code
Java SDK	8	build and use InterMine
Tomcat	8.5.x	website
PostgreSQL	9.3.x	database
Perl	5.8.8	run build scripts
Maven	3.0.5	manage local dependencies
SOLR	7.2.1	search engine

Note

InterMine only supports installations onto Linux and Mac OS X systems. Windows systems of any kind are not supported. We run a mixture of Debian and Fedora servers in our data centre in Cambridge.

After installation, most programs require extra configuration to work with InterMine:

• Git
  • Getting started
  • Local Installation (for advanced users)
• Java
  • GRADLE_OPTS
• Perl
  • CPAN
  • DEB Packages
  • Manually installing InterMine modules
  • List of Perl Modules to Install
  • How to install all the Perl Modules to Run the Data Downloader Script
• PostgreSQL
  • Installing PostgreSQL
  • HikariCP and InterMine settings
• Tomcat
  • Installation
  • After Installation
• Mac Installation Notes
  • Installing Tomcat
  • Installing Eclipse
  • Installing Postgres
• Maven
• Intellij
  • Errors
  • Running Unit Tests
• Solr
  • Configure the InterMine instance
  • Install SOLR
  • Initialising Search Indexes
  • Create Search Indexes
  • Configuring Search Results
  • Production search

InterMine uses Gradle to manage the build but do not install Gradle locally. Instead use the wrapper provided.