User Guide

Adobe LiveCycle Before You Install
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Upgrading LiveCycle products
For the latest information on upgrading LiveCycle products, refer to the Knowledge Center article at:
www.adobe.com/support/products/enterprise/knowledgecenter/c4811.pdf
.
System requirements
This section includes details about the software and hardware that is required for running LiveCycle
products.
Note: If you are running the turnkey installation and configuration, the only prerequisite software
requirement is the Java™ Development Kit (JDK) and, optionally, a web browser. The turnkey
method installs and configures JBoss (which includes the Apache web server) and a MySQL
database (for LiveCycle Policy Server).
Supported software
This table provides a summary of the application servers, web servers, web browsers, and JDK versions
that LiveCycle products support. For a complete list, see “
Supported Platform and Software Combinations”
on page 75.
Required software Supported version
Operating System
● Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition
with Service Pack 1
● SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 i386 (32-bit)
● (LiveCycle Policy Server) Red Hat® Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Update 3
or 3.0
Application server
● JBoss Application Server 3.2.5
Web browser
● Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows
Note: LiveCycle Reader Extensions supports only Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6.0
● Netscape 7.1 or higher for Windows
● Netscape 7.2 or higher for Linux
● Mozilla 1.8 or higher for Windows and Linux
● Safari 1.2.3, Safari 1.3, Safari 2.0 (end-user support for Macintosh only)
JDK
● J2SDK version 1.4.2_04 or later (version 1.4.2_10 is not supported)
You must create or set the
JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the
location where Java is installed. Ensure that the following is set:
Set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%/bin;%PATH% (Windows) or Set
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
(Linux).