Title: 1.3 - Installing and starting the server NavPrev: 1.2-some-background.html NavPrevText: 1.2 - Some Background. Directories, directory services and LDAP NavUp: 1-how-to-begin.html NavUpText: 1 - How to begin NavNext: 1.4-basic-configuration-tasks.html NavNextText: 1.4 - Basic configuration tasks Notice: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at . http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. # 1.3 - Installing and starting the server This section describes how ApacheDS can be installed and started on different platforms. [TOC] ## Prerequisites * **Java 7.0**. We recommend using [Oracle's JDK](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html). You can check your java installation with: java -version this should response something like: java version "1.7.0_45" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode) * **384 MB RAM** for the JVM. That's the default setting, how to change that is described [here|1.4. Basic configuration tasks#MemoryAllocation] ## Download a server installer We provide native installers for several platforms: * Windows (exe) * Mac OS X (dmg) * Debian package (deb) * RPM package (rpm) * Linux Binary (bin) Additional we provide an zip and tar.gz archive suitable for any platform. You can download them from [here](https://directory.apache.org/apacheds/downloads.html). An option for people familiar with tools like Subversion and Maven is to built the server from the sources on their own. This is described [here](../advanced-ug/0.2-building-trunks.html). # Installation on Windows Installing can be easily done using the Windows installer. Its interface and functionality is similar to other wizard based installers.