2.2. Build Procedure Prerequisites

In this section we will assume that you are using the Ubuntu Linux distribution with the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). If you are using a different distribution or OS and a different packaging tool, adapt the following instructions to your environment. To build CloudStack you will need:

git, http://git-scm.com
```
sudo apt-get install git-core
```

maven, http://maven.apache.org

sudo apt-get install maven

Make sure that you installed maven 3

$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.4
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-33-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

java

set the JAVA_HOME environment variable

$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk

In addition, to deploy and run CloudStack in a development environment you will need:

Mysql
```
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
```
Start the mysqld service and create a cloud user with cloud as a password
Tomcat 6
```
sudo apt-get install tomcat6
```