Well,you have not mentioned the version of Crystal Reports that you intend to use.
I myself am not sure about that;but I did try to find it out from Crystal Decisions's Official Website and,this piece of information might be useful for you.
http://support.crystaldecisions.com/kbase/c2009003.asp?AJID=97099BD651700A4FA9B3D5958C5900B9
Here is what is says (Source-Crystal Decisions):
The environments listed below are the only environments that are explicitly supported for the operation of all Crystal Enterprise version 8.0.2.672 components:
Operating System*-- Client Components**-- Server Components
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Microsoft Windows:
2000 Professional···········Yes····························Yes
2000 Server····················Yes····························Yes
2000 Advanced Server··Yes····························Yes
NT4 Workstation SP5·····Yes····························Yes
NT4 Workstation SP6a···Yes····························Yes
NT4 Server SP5··············Yes····························Yes
NT4 Server SP6a············Yes····························Yes
95/98/ME·······················Yes·····························No
Redhat Linux:
6.2 (x86) and higher·········No····················Web Connectors
7.0 (x86)···························No····················Web Connectors
SuSe Linux:
6.4 (x86) and higher·········No····················Web Connectors
Sun Solaris:
7 (Sparc)·························No·····················Web Connectors
8 (Sparc)·························No·····················Web Connectors
* Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and Advanced Server are supported with either the release version or with SP1.
** Client components are: Crystal Publishing Wizard, Crystal Configuration Manager, Crystal Import Wizard, and Crystal Web Wizard
Web Servers
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Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS):
IIS 3.0 (on NT4 Server)
IIS 4.0 (on NT4 Server)
IIS 5.0 (on 2000 Pro/Server)
Microsoft Personal Web Server 3 (on NT4 Workstation)
Netscape:
iPlanet 4.0 SP1 (on NT4 Server)
Enterprise Server 4.1 (on NT4 Server, 2000 Pro/Server)
Enterprise Server 3.51 (on NT4 Server, 2000 Pro/Server)
Fastrack 3.01 (on NT4 Server)
Lotus Domino R5 (on NT4 Server, 2000 Pro/Server)
Apache:
1.3.9 [on Solaris 7* (Sparc), Solaris 8 (Sparc)]
1.3.12 [on Suse 6.4 (x86)]
1.3.14 [on Redhat 6.2 (x86), Redhat 7 (x86)]
CGI with:
Netscape Enterprise Server 4.1
IIS 4.0
IIS 5.0
IBM HTTP Server (version 1.3.19.2)**
* To run CE on Solaris 7 with an Apache web server requires Solaris 7 patch 106327-08. See Knowledge Base article C2006554 for more information.
** The file "IBM HTTP Server Configuration for Crystal Enterprise 8", can be found on our support site at http://support.crystaldecisions.com/downloads by searching for the file name ce80ihs.zip. It details how to configure the CGI Web Connector and the IBM HTTP Server for full functionality with Crystal Enterprise 8.0.2.672.
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NOTE:
Apache 1.3 for Windows NT was beta software when Crystal Enterprise 8.0.2.672 was being developed and is not a supported web server. For more information visit: http://httpd.apache.org/info/apache_nt.html
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Web Clients
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Microsoft Internet Explorer:
5.5 SP1 ( on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME) - Recommended
5.01 SP1 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
4.5 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
4.01 SP2 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
Netscape:
4.75 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000) - Recommended
4.61 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
4.51 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
4.08 (on Windows 95/98/NT/2000)
Firewall Support
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Checkpoint Firewall-1 (Windows NT 4 Server)
Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 (Windows NT 4 Server)
NEC eBorder (Windows NT 4 Server)
APS Databases
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Oracle 7.3.2, 8.1.6, and 8.1.7
Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5, 11.9.2, and 12
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Microsoft:
Access
SQL Server 7 & Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) [SP2 & SP3]
SQL Server 2000 & MSDE
Database Connectivity
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Clients:
IBM DB2 5.2
DB2 6.1 and 7.1
Informix 9.14 and 2000
Lotus Notes 4.6 and R5
MetaCube 4.2
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, and 2000
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services (SP 1)
Oracle 7.3, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, and 8.1.6
Sybase 11.5, 11.9.2, and 12
Servers:
DB2 Universal Server 5.2 (Fix Pak 9) (X86)
DB2 6, and 7.1
Essbase OLAP Server 5.0 (X86)
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3 (X86)
Informix Universal Server 9.11 (UNIX)
Informix 2000 Server
Lotus Domino 5.0 (X86)
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 (X86)
Microsoft IIS 2.0 (X86), 3.0 (X86), and 4.0 (X86)
Microsoft SQL Server 6.5.416 (X86), 7.0.699 (X86), and 2000
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 (X86)
Oracle Server 7.3.2 (X86), 8.0.3 (UNIX), 8.0.4 (X86), 8.0.5 (X86),
and 8.1.6 (X86)
Sybase System Server 11.0.2 (UNIX)
Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5 (X86) and 11.9.2 (X86)
Sybase Adaptive Server 12 (Both UNIX and X86)
Other:
ACT! 3 and 4.02
Btrieve Pervasive SQL 7
Microsoft Access 97 and 2000
Paradox 8 and 9
Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, and 2000
Development Components
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API (Application Program Interface)
Microsoft Visual Basic 5 SP3 on Windows NT4 SP6a
Microsoft Visual Basic 6 SP3 on Windows NT4 SP6a
Microsoft Visual C 5 SP3 on Windows NT4 SP6a
If you look out at cr85_featuresmatrix.pdf available at http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr85_featuresmatrix.pdf.asp,you would notice that it says that CR 8.5 does support Linux.
Regards,
Pooja M.,
http://home.attbi.com/~pooja.mohan