Stage 1 requirements

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Dockerised setup

We are currently migrating to a Dockerised setup to further simplify setup and this documentation will be updated to reflect this approach soon.

Parts of the Ensembl codebase have very specific requirements so it is usually easiest to run an Ensembl instance on dedicated server/virtual machine. For this reason easy import (particularly the scripts for Stage 1 which use easy mirror) assumes a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.

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Developed and tested on Ubuntu 14.04

easy import has been developed and tested on freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04. Most steps should run on alternate operating systems but Step 1.1 is OS/version specific.