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+\chapter{System Requirements}
+\label{SysReqs}
+\index[general]{System Requirements }
+\index[general]{Requirements!System }
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item {\bf Bacula} has been compiled and run on OpenSuSE Linux, FreeBSD, and
+ Solaris systems.
+\item It requires GNU C++ version 2.95 or higher to compile. You can try with
+ other compilers and older versions, but you are on your own. We have
+ successfully compiled and used Bacula using GNU C++ version 4.1.3.
+ Note, in general GNU C++ is a separate package (e.g. RPM) from GNU C, so you
+ need them both loaded. On Red Hat systems, the C++ compiler is part of the
+ {\bf gcc-c++} rpm package.
+\item There are certain third party packages that Bacula may need. Except for
+ MySQL and PostgreSQL, they can all be found in the {\bf depkgs} and {\bf
+ depkgs1} releases. However, most current Linux and FreeBSD systems
+ provide these as system packages.
+\item The minimum versions for each of the databases supported by Bacula
+ are:
+
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item MySQL 4.1
+ \item PostgreSQL 7.4
+ \item SQLite 3
+ \end{itemize}
+
+\item If you want to build the Win32 binaries, please see the
+ README.mingw32 file in the src/win32 directory. We cross-compile the
+ Win32 release on Linux. We provide documentation on building the Win32
+ version, but due to the complexity, you are pretty much on your own
+ if you want to build it yourself.
+\item {\bf Bacula} requires a good implementation of pthreads to work. This
+ is not the case on some of the BSD systems.
+\item The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly
+ POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system
+ should be relatively easy.
+\item The GNOME Console program is developed and tested under GNOME 2.x.
+ GNOME 1.4 is no longer supported.
+\item The wxWidgets Console program is developed and tested with the latest
+ stable ANSI or Unicode version of
+ \elink{wxWidgets}{http://www.wxwidgets.org} (2.6.1). It works fine with the
+ Windows and GTK+-2.x version of wxWidgets, and should also work on other
+ platforms supported by wxWidgets.
+\item The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x. It needs GNOME less
+ or equal to 2.2, KDE greater or equal to 3.1 or any window manager supporting
+ the
+ \elink{ FreeDesktop system tray
+ standard}{http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec}.
+\item If you want to enable command line editing and history, you will need
+ to have /usr/include/termcap.h and either the termcap or the ncurses library
+ loaded (libtermcap-devel or ncurses-devel).
+\item If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the
+ \elink{dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8}{http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/},
+ apply the patch that is in the {\bf patches} directory of the main
+ source tree
+ to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them.
+ There is also a patch for dvd+rw-tools version 6.1, and we hope that the
+ patch is integrated into a later version.
+ Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, unless you
+ are sure it contains the patch. dvd+rw-tools without the patch will not
+ work with Bacula. DVD media is not recommended for serious or important
+ backups because of its low reliability.
+\end{itemize}