Restructure Prep, Prerequisites, and Installation guides to distinguish between required dependencies and optional ones #9535
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Feature: Installation Guide
Type: Suggestion
an idea
User Role: Sysadmin
Installs, upgrades, and configures the system, connects via ssh
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The Dataverse Prep, Prerequisites, and Installation guides lists not needed prerequisites and also misses needed dependencies. Namely R, RServer, project COUNTER and ImageMagick are optional dependencies to enhance the functionality but are listed in the prerequisites section. Requirements for the dvinstaller (python,curl) are not listed there.
Documentation Page Prep
Section Required Components move
Rserve: runs as a daemon to execute R code.
to the section Optional ComponentsDocumentation Page Prerequisites list ImageMagick, R/Rserve and Counter Processor as prerequisites. Within the descriptive text its mentioned that those are optional but it easy to miss that. Hence, I propose to move those sections to the Advanced Installation Optional Components.
Documentation Page Installation lists additional and assume other requirements to execute the
dvinstaller
.pqsql
is mentioned but for examplepython3
, andcurl
are just assumed to be available. It would be nice to state those requirements within the Prerequisites page.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: