INSTALL

Welcome to FreeHealth
copyright © 2016 Jerome Pinguet

FreeHealth EHR is a fork of:
FreeMedForms
Copyright (C) 2008 by Eric MAEKER
eric.maeker@gmail.com

I. What is FreeHealth ?

An Electronic Health Record including FreeRx, the electronic
prescribing plugin.

This project is free and open source: join the community!
FreeHealth and derivatives are released under the terms
of the GPLv3 License. Some parts of the code are LGPL v2.1.

FreeHealth EHR and derived apps are coded in C++/Qt5
Supported OS:

- GNU/Linux : Ubuntu, Debian
- macOS
- Windows


II. Build specification

Build instructions are described here:
    https://freehealth.io/en/code/buildsystem


III. Installation

See online documentation:
https://freehealth.io/en/manuals/ehr/install/server

We recommand that you install FreeHealth EHR databases on 1 of the following RDBMS:
  * MariaDB 10.1
  * MySQL 5.7

The alternative installation procedure using SQLite database is deprecated.
SQlite support will be discontinued in the next release and one of the RDBMS
will become mandatory.

If you are upgrading from FreeMedFoms 0.9.8, install FreeHealth 0.9.9 first: the
upgrade process is automatic, you just need to answer Yes to 2 questions about
copying FreeMedForms parameters folder and user folder. If you want to switch
from FreeMedForms 1.0.0, contact us, we are working on a conversion tool.