EPrints 3.4.5 has no extra external dependencies compared to 3.4.4. However, those upgrading may need to make configuration changes to continue to include certain incorporated dependencies. See https://wiki.eprints.org/w/EPrints_3.4.5 for more details. For a full list of dependencies see https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Installing_EPrints_on_RHEL/Fedora/CentOS or https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Installing_EPrints_on_Debian/Ubuntu We advise installing eprints into /opt, and running apache as the eprints user. Please note installs from repository packages will be installed to /usr/share/eprints. As the root user download both eprints-3.4.5.tar.gz and eprints-3.4.5-flavours.tar.gz and put them into /root/ Then also as root install the files: adduser eprints cd /root tar xvzf eprints-3.4.5.tar.gz tar xvzf eprints-3.4.5-flavours.tar.gz cd eprints-3.4.5 ./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 upgrading an existing repository from EPrints 3.3.12 and later versions of 3.3, please refer to https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Upgrading_3.3.12%2B_to_3.4 For upgrading an existing repository from an earlier version of EPrints 3.4 and later versions of 3.3, please refer to https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Upgrading_between_EPrints_3.4_versions