- [mysqli](http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php) or [pdo_mysql](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php) for MySQL/Percona 8.0.11 or later databases
- Privileges either to create and run systemd services, or to run cron jobs
It is also be possible to run The Arsse on other operating systems (including Windows) and with other Web servers, but the configuration required to do so is not documented here.