Chapter 2. Installation and Testing

Table of Contents
System Requirements
FreeBSD?
Installation Instructions
Installation Commentary
Separate Compilation of Manhattan Components
Security Issues

This chapter provides detailed instructions for how to install Manhattan 2.2 on a Linux server. We also provide some hints for FreeBSD servers. (If you don't yet have the software, visit http://manhattan.sourceforge.net to download a copy.)

Installing Manhattan isn't difficult. How long it takes depends largely on how much experience you have with Linux. Complete "newbies" may struggle with basic tasks like copying or editing a file, that more experienced users have done thousands of times. After you've installed Manhattan once, you can do it again if you need to within 20 minutes.