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Installation and Licensing

This section covers the various Flix 5 installation and upgrade methods as well as the installation procedure of the third-party applications.

Flix 5.4v2 System Requirements

Flix 5 is a web-based application that runs on OS X/macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Client

OS X/macOS	• OS X 10.11 El Capitan • macOS 10.12 Sierra • macOS 10.13 High Sierra (Up to version 10.13.5)
Windows	• Windows 7 • Windows 8 • Windows 10 (Up to version 1803)
Linux	• Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7 (Up to 7.5)

Server

Linux

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7 (Up to 7.5)

Flix 5.3 System Requirements

Client

OS X/macOS	• OS X 10.9 Mavericks • OS X 10.10 Yosemite • OS X 10.11 El Capitan • macOS 10.12 Sierra • macOS 10.13 High Sierra (Up to version 10.13.4)
Windows	• Windows 7 • Windows 8 • Windows 10 (Up to version 1709)
Linux	• Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7 (Up to 7.4)

Server

Linux

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7 (Up to 7.4)

Other Software Requirements

Flix 5 requires a Web browser with Flash to run. Flix 5's performance highly depends on your network speed. The default Web browser for Flix is Google Chrome. When you start Flix 5 it opens the interface inside the default Web browser. If you want to change the default Web browser to Firefox you need to add the appropriate OS entry to flixApp/flixConfig/core/localParamters.yml

For example:

On OS X/macOS

browserCommandDarwin : 'open -a "Firefox"'

On Linux:

browserCommandLinux : 'firefox'

On Windows:

browserCommandWindows : 'start "" "firefox"'

See Launchers Parameters for more information.

Note:  For more information on applications' dependencies, refer to Application Dependencies.