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System requirements

Software requirements

Lycia is supported on 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms.

LyciaStudio and Lycia VS Code Extension

Supported platforms & browsers

Windows 10 or newer

Fedora (vendor-supported versions)

Ubuntu (vendor-supported versions)

Debian (vendor-supported versions)

OpenSUSE (vendor-supported versions)

Slackware (vendor-supported versions)

REHL (version 8 and above)

CentOS (version 8 and above)

Required software

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8

GTK+2.0

Glibc 2.21 or later

Any C linker

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (x64)

Lycia is equipped with a C linker, MinGW, that is installed via Querix Package Manager.

You can work with it or choose another C linker, e.g., Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 and later (must be installed on your machine).

Querix Package Manager

Supported platforms & browsers

Same as for LyciaStudio

Required software

Git (latest version but not earlier than 2.13)

Git LFS (latest version but not earlier than 2.7.2)

XZ Utils

LyciaDesktop

Supported platforms & browsers

Windows 10

Fedora (vendor-supported versions)

Ubuntu (vendor-supported versions)

Debian (vendor-supported versions)

OpenSUSE (vendor-supported versions)

Slackware (vendor-supported versions)

REHL (version 8 and above)

CentOS (version 8 and above)

Google Chrome

LyciaWeb

Supported platforms & browsers

Google Chrome (vendor-supported versions)

Mozilla Firefox (vendor-supported versions)

Opera (vendor-supported versions)

Microsoft Edge (vendor-supported versions)

Internet Explorer (supported only for Windows 10)

Safari Web Browser (supported only for Mac OS)

Hardware requirements

These are minimum hardware requirements for using Lycia

1 GB RAM for Lycia Web Application Server (Jetty)
1.5 GB RAM for LyciaStudio
optional memory for BIRT and Report Engine – please check the requirements for corresponding tools
memory required for creating forms in Lycia Form Designer – are calculated by this rough formula:

number of open forms x 50 Mb

For example,

10 open forms will make 10 x 50 Mb = 500 Mb RAM
server memory required by running programs – are calculated by this rough formula:

number of running programs (processes) x 30Mb

For example,

50 Users (each running an application process) will make 50 x 30 Mb = 1.5 GB RAM

Lycia requires ≈ 3.5 GB of free hard drive space for initial installation.

Updating Lycia package will require up to 1 GB of free hard drive space. You can use the clear option of QPM to clean this space.