Presently installing and setting up The Arsse involves some manual labour. We have packages for Arch Linux and hope to have installation packages available for other operating systems eventually, but for now the pages in this section should help get you up and running on Arch Linux or Debian-based systems, with Nginx or Apache HTTP Server.

It is also be possible to run The Arsse on other operating systems (including Windows) and with other Web servers, but the configuration required to do so is not documented in this manual.

# Requirements

For reference, The Arsse has the following requirements:

- A Linux server running Nginx or Apache 2.4
- PHP 7.1.0 or later with the following extensions:
    - [intl](http://php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php), [json](http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php), [hash](http://php.net/manual/en/book.hash.php), and [dom](http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php)
    - [simplexml](http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php), and [iconv](http://php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php)
    - One of:
        - [sqlite3](http://php.net/manual/en/book.sqlite3.php) or [pdo_sqlite](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-sqlite.php) for SQLite databases
        - [pgsql](http://php.net/manual/en/book.pgsql.php) or [pdo_pgsql](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-pgsql.php) for PostgreSQL 10 or later databases
        - [mysqli](http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php) or [pdo_mysql](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php) for MySQL/Percona 8.0.11 or later databases
    - [curl](http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php) (optional)
- Privileges either to create and run systemd services, or to run cron jobs

Instructions for how to satisfy the PHP extension requirements for Arch Linux and Debian systems are included in the next section.