Taverna Requirements

Taverna will run on any machine that has Java 1.5 or higher installed. If your machine does not have Java, then it can be downloaded from Sun Microsystems.

In order to run Taverna, it is a good idea for your machine to have 512Mb of RAM or higher. Taverna will run with less memory, but its performance may be affected.

Taverna has been tested on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and various versions of Linux.

Windows

Taverna’s workbench software includes the Windows version of ‘dot’, the tool we use internally to draw the workflow diagrams, so no further installation is required.

Linux

Linux system requirements are similar to Windows, with the additional requirement to install the graphviz package so that Taverna can find the ‘dot’ executable. If you have Taverna installed and it’s complaining about missing commands or similar then this is probably why. Graphviz may be downloaded for a wide variety of operating systems free of charge at AT&T research’s site here : http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/download.html

Note that Taverna will not work with gcj that is bundled with Ubuntu. You will need to install a more recent version of Java as described here.

Mac OS X

Taverna for Mac OS X is released as a disc image incorporating the Graphviz.app package - as far as we know this should therefore work an all up to date Apple hardware. Taverna has been tested under OS X 10.4 and OS X 10.5.

Java 1.6 issue

Some versions of Java 1.6 on some machines may throw
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number

See the Sun bug database for details.