Supported Platforms

ZipTie may run on other platforms, these are the platforms we have run it on in house. If you find one not listed here that works, please let us and the community know by posting on the forum or send us an email at info@ziptie.org and we will update the page.

* client only

ZipTie Client Prerequisites

Sun Java Runtime (JRE) version 1.5 (aka 5.0) or version 1.6 (aka 6.0)

• JRE 6.0 For Windows and Linux: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
• JRE 5.0 For Windows and Linux: http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_11/index.html
• Mac OS X (version 10.4), if current with Apple updates, should have a correct version of Java.

ZipTie Server Prerequisites

1. Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.5 (aka 5.0) or version 1.6 (aka 6.0)

• JDK 6.0 For Windows and Linux: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
• JDK 5.0 For Windows and Linux: http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_11/index.html
• Mac OS X (version 10.4), if current with Apple updates, should have a correct version of Java.

2. Perl 5.8.x

• For Windows ActiveState Perl is recommended and can be found here (for free) - http://www.activestate.com/store/download.aspx?prdGUID=81fbce82-6bd5-49bc-a915-08d58c2648ca
• Mac OS X and any contemporary Linux should have the required version of Perl.
• The following Perl modules are required on Linux and OS X:

        Archive::Tar
        Compress::Zlib
        Crypt::DES
        Digest::HMAC
        Digest::SHA1
        HTTP::Request
        HTTP::Response
        IO::Socket::INET6
        IO::Zlib
        IPC::Run
        LWP::UserAgent
        Net::IP
        Net::SNMP
        Net::Telnet
        Net::TFTP
        Socket6
        Term::VT102
        Test::XML
        XML::SemanticDiff
        XML::Simple
        XML::Twig
        XML::XPath
   

• MacOS X users should also check out this page, which is required to get running (even if you aren't developing for ZipTie)

3. NMAP (required by some bundled tools)

• Windows: http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.11-setup.exe
• For Windows you also need Winpcap 4.0
• Mac OS X (version 10.4) includes an appropriate version.
• Many distributions of Linux include nmap, if yours does not use the appropriate package installer to install it.

4. Subversion dependencies

ZipTie uses the Subversion version control system to archive configuration histories.

Windows and Ubuntu users do not have to do anything as all the dependencies are taken care of by the respective installers. However if you are using a different flavor of Linux (other than Ubuntu) or MacOSX, you will have to install the dependencies yourself.

On Linux, users should use their package manager to install and packages usually vary from distro to distro, but they usually contain the names "libsvn" for the Subversion libraries and "svn-javahl" for the Java Subversion bindings (e.g. on Ubuntu it is "libsvn1" and "libsvn-javahl" and on Mandriva it is "libsvn" and "svn-javahl").

MacOSX users can use the following link http://downloads.open.collab.net/binaries.html to get to a binary install.