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<section id="build-prerequisites">
    <title>Build Procedure Prerequisites</title>
    <para>In this section we will assume that you are using the Ubuntu Linux distribution with the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). If you are using a different distribution or OS and a different packaging tool, adapt the following instructions to your environment. To build &PRODUCT; you will need:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
            <para>git, <ulink url="http://git-scm.com">http://git-scm.com</ulink></para>
            <para><programlisting>sudo apt-get install git-core</programlisting></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
            <para>maven, <ulink url="http://maven.apache.org">http://maven.apache.org</ulink></para>
            <para><programlisting>sudo apt-get install maven</programlisting></para>
            <para>Make sure that you installed maven 3</para>
            <para><programlisting>$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-33-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"</programlisting></para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
            <para>java</para>
            <para>set the JAVA_HOME environment variable</para>
            <para><programlisting>$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk</programlisting></para>
        </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    
    <para>In addition, to deploy and run &PRODUCT; in a development environment you will need:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
            <para>Mysql</para>
            <para><programlisting>sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5</programlisting></para>
            <para>Start the mysqld service and create a cloud user with cloud as a password</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
            <para>Tomcat 6</para>
            <para><programlisting>sudo apt-get install tomcat6</programlisting></para>
        </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

</section>