:project-name: Virgo
:version: 3.7.0.RC01

:umbrella-project-name: Eclipse Virgo
:tomcat-product-name: Virgo for Apache Tomcat
:tomcat-product-name-short: VTS
:jetty-product-name: Virgo Jetty Server
:jetty-product-name-short: VJS
:kernel-product-name: Virgo Kernel
:kernel-product-name-short: VK
:nano-product-name: Virgo Nano
:nano-product-name-short: VN
:user-guide: link:../../virgo-user-guide/html/index.html[User Guide]
:tooling-guide: link:../../virgo-tooling-guide/html/index.html[Tooling Guide]

:gemini-blueprint-guide: https://www.eclipse.org/gemini/blueprint/documentation/reference/2.0.0.RELEASE/html/index.html[Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Reference Guide]

:spring-framework-version: 4.2.9.RELEASE

:homepage: https://www.eclipse.org/virgo
:ebr: http://www.eclipse.org/ebr[EBR]

:imagesdir: assets/images

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== Installing {kernel-product-name}

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=== Prerequisites

The {kernel-product-name}, or {kernel-product-name-short} for short, requires Java SE 6 or later to be installed. Java is available from
http://www.java.com/[http://www.java.com/] and elsewhere.

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=== Installing from the ZIP Download

==== Downloading the ZIP file

{kernel-product-name} is distributed as a ZIP file. This can be downloaded from
http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/download/[here].

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==== Installing

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===== Linux

To install the {kernel-product-name} on Linux, unzip the distribution package to the desired installation directory.
For example, to install into `/opt`:

....
$ unzip virgo-kernel-{version}.zip -d /opt
....

This creates a directory called `virgo-kernel-{version}` under `/opt`.

{kernel-product-name} requires write access to the installation directory, in this case `/opt/virgo-kernel-{version}`.
Typically this means it must be run as the user that installed it, or the installation directory's ownership must be changed.

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===== Microsoft Windows

To install the {kernel-product-name} on Windows, unzip the distribution package to the desired installation directory.
You should use a zip application such as 7zip, not the built-in folder decompression.  Note that both Windows and
Java have some issues with long file names and file paths, so we recommend installing to the root directory of
your chosen drive.

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=== Installing from an update site

==== The repository location

Virgo has a single p2 repository that contains all Virgo distributions. The repository for version {version} can be found {p2repo}[here].
There is a repository for each released version.

==== Using the p2 director

As shown in xref:using-director[] you can easily install {kernel-product-name-short} in a desired destination.
The only director argument that needs to be adjusted is *-installIU*.

For {kernel-product-name-short} the right value is *kernel.product*.

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=== Post-installation steps
Follow the same xref:installation-post[Post-installation steps] as for {tomcat-product-name}.