Software Requirements

This page describes various system software required to run the cBioPortal.

MySQL

The cBioPortal software should run properly on MySQL version 5.x.x; to avoid a known issue while loading the database schema, 5.7.x or lower is recommended. The software can be found and downloaded from the MySQL website.

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mysql-server

MongoDB

The session service uses MongoDB 3.6.6

Java

As of this writing, the cBioPortal can be compiled and run from Java 8.0 and above. The software can be found and download from the Oracle website.

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install default-jdk

Apache Maven

The cBioPortal source code is an Apache Maven driven project. The software needs to be downloaded and installed prior to building the application from source code. It can be found on the Apache Maven website. We are currently using version 3.5.4.

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install maven

Git

You will need a git client to download the cBioPortal source code.

On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install git

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