====== Requirements ======

===== General requirements =====

All you need to use LSC is a Java 1.5 virtual machine (JRE).

Download [[http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp|latest JRE from Sun]] or install one packaged with your distribution.

Production servers running regularly scheduled synchronizations will also need cron, or another other task scheduler.

===== Setting up your environment =====

==== Java ====

    * Check that the ''JAVA_HOME'' environment variable is set up. If not, set it up with a command like this (adapt the path to your system):

<code shell>$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun</code>
===== Operating System =====

LSC is written in Java, and as such should run on any system with a JVM.

However, some shell scripts are used to launch the Java application. At this time, the shell scripts require bash to run (see [[http://tools.lsc-project.org/issues/show/180|bug #180]]) This means that on Windows you must run LSC in Cygwin for now (or try the BAT script from [[http://tools.lsc-project.org/issues/show/180|bug #180]]).

LSC has been successfully tested and used on various recent versions of Linux, MacOS X and Windows (with Cygwin).