Chamilo - Server Dependencies

Introduction

In the ever-evoluting web environment, Chamilo has to rely on state-of-the-art third-party software in order to provide you with useful and practical features. Some of this third-party software usually come bundled with your operating system, but some don't. This means that if that software is not installed on your Chamilo server, along with Chamilo, you might not enjoy the best possible experience with your Chamilo platform. To avoid this problem, most of the sofware we used is bundled into a typical Chamilo installation.

However, if such a third-party software is too big to be included, or if it doesn't make sense to include it for whatever reason, you must make sure it is installed on your system. This is the goal of this list: to help you keep a track of what software is needed and, as much as possible, where to get the required information to install it.

Dependencies - client-side

We recommend using HTML5-compatible technology.

PC with a minimum of 512MB or any tablet or smartphone
We recommend a Pentium-I as a minimum processor capability for PCs
Works on Windows XP (SP3 recommended) and later versions, Linux (any version with a graphical interface), Mac OS (any version), FreeBSD, Android, iOS and pretty much any other operating system with a graphical interface you might think about
Any modern browser (IE6 and IE7 excluded). Safari is known to have small issues with the WYSIWYG editor.
Optional: Flash plugin (only required for a few features like the hotspot image question type and the audio recorder)
Optional: Java applet capability (only required in case you don't use the Flash version of the audio recorder)

Dependencies - server-side

Apache 2+
PHP 5.4 or higher with MySQL bindings (mysqlnd is recommended) and php-gd extension to allow Chamilo to resize pictures. The
MySQL 5.1+ or any version of MariaDB database server
php5-intl package (for international behaviour support)
php5-imagick
php5-curl (only required for a feature in the links tool and an optional installer check)
php5-mcrypt (only required for a feature in the survey tool)
php5-ldap (only required for connection to a LDAP server)
php5-xapian (only required for full-text indexing and search)

Included Dependencies

EZpdf and MPDF
FCKEditor (previously HTMLArea)
FormValidator
iCalCreator
kSes
MIMETex
MP3Player
PCLZip
PEAR::HTML_Common
PEAR::HTML_QuickForm
PEAR::HTML_Table
PEAR::OLE
PEAR::Pager
PEAR::Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
PECL
PHPMailer
WCAG_Rendering
xajax
jQuery

Extra features dependencies - server-side

Chamilo LMS is a very complex software suite, and some of its components wil only work when some specific server-side libraries are installed. The names of the libraries below are taken from a Debian/Ubuntu installation, so you might need to adapt these if you are installing on Windows, Mac or another Linux distribution.
Please note that, as for the rest of free software, we are NOT giving or implying any warranty of any kind that this will work on your system, even on the intended Debian/Ubuntu systems. You should take your own precautions to ensure all components are installed by an expert in the field.

Chamilo Rapid (ex Oogie(TM))

libreoffice

Audio recording (generate mp3 from wav)

libav-tools
libavcodec-extra-53
libmp3lame0

BigBlueButton videoconference

bigbluebutton