Preparing the installation
To install i2b2 with the i2b2 Wizard, you will need the following components:
- The latest version of i2b2 Wizard. Note that the recent versions no longer contain a version number but rather a date. Just download the latest one from here: http://community.i2b2.org/repos/i2b2/trunk/related/i2b2Wizard/ZIP%20files/
- A supported Linux installation disc image. i2b2 Wizard supports different Linux distributions, but using Ubuntu 14.04 is recommended. Download this file: http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
(To get an overview of the supported Linux distributions, unzip the i2b2 Wizard file you have just downloaded and have a look at the scripts/os_version directory. This directory contains a script for each supported operating system. If your favourite Linux distribution is not supported, it is possible to create a copy of the most similar available version script with the file name of your desired distribution. We will come to this later.) - A virtual machine software. We recommend using VirtualBox, which you can download from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/. In this guide, we are using version 4.3.28-100309 on Mac OS X. Just pick the latest version, and also install the VirtualBox additions.
- The i2b2 files. While the i2b2 Wizard can download most of the necessary files automatically, you have to download some files for i2b2 manually. These are: i2b2core-src-1705.zip, i2b2webclient-1705.zip and i2b2createdb-1705.zip. You can download them from: https://www.i2b2.org/software/index.html If this version is no longer available, just pick the latest version. i2b2 Wizard is - hopefully - already compatible with the latest version.
