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# Vinyl Cache Installation

This section covers installation prerequisites, a step-by-step installation procedure, how and where to get help, and how to report bugs.

- Prerequisites
- Installing Vinyl Cache
  - Installing on Debian/Ubuntu
  - Installing on FreeBSD
  - Installing on OpenBSD
  - Installing on RedHat or CentOS
- Compiling Vinyl Cache from source
  - Compiling Vinyl Cache from source
- Other pre-built Vinyl Cache packages
- Getting help
  - IRC Channel
  - Mailing Lists
  - Trouble Tickets
  - Commercial Support
- Reporting bugs
  - `Vinyld` crashes
  - `Vinyld` goes on vacation
  - `Vinyld` does something wrong
- Platform specific notes
  - On Linux, use tmpfs for the workdir
  - workdir can not be mounted `noexec`
  - Lift locked memory limits
  - Transparent Hugepage on Linux
  - OpenVZ
  - TCP keep-alive configuration