EPrints 3.4.1 has a couple of extra prerequisites compared to 3.4.0 and 3.3. See https://wiki.eprints.org/w/EPrints_3.4.1 for more details. We advise installing eprints into /opt, and running apache as the eprints user. Please note installs from repoistory packages will be installed to /usr/share/eprints. As the root user download both eprints-3.4.0.tar.gz and eprints-3.4.0-flavours.tar.gz and put them into /root/ Then also as root install the files: cd /root tar xvzf eprints-3.4.1.tar.gz tar xvzf eprints-3.4.1-flavours.tar.gz cd eprints-3.4.1 ./configure make install # change to the eprints user su - eprints cd /opt/eprints3 # to create a minimal repository bin/epadmin create zero # or to create a publications repository bin/epadmin create pub For upgrade existing repository from EPrints 3.3.12 and later versions, please refer to https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Upgrading_3.3.12%2B_to_3.4 EPrints 3.4.1 can now be installed from DEB or RPM packages by downloading eprints-3.4.1_all.deb or eprints-3.4.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm or these packages are available from deb.eprints-hosting.org/3.4/stable/ and rpm.eprints-hosting.org/eprints3.4/noarch/ respectively. Please note that the DEB and RPM packages onlu allow minimal (zero) repository to be created. Please unpack the publication flavour tarball and put the pub_lib subdirectory into /usr/share/eprints/flavours/.