On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:23:50AM -0700, williamw wrote: > Hello, I have been searching all over on how to install DSpace onto > solaris and i cant seem to find out how, as in i mean how to install > what into what directory and what directory's i need to make and > where, ive been on the dspace wiki and that didn't really help me > all that much, and i guess it doesn't help all that much that i am > new to Linux so i don't really know how to install things all that > great, i was wondering if anyone would take the time to help me?
1) You mention both Solaris and Linux. You are installing on which?
2) You need Java (a JDK, to be precise), a servlet container (such as
Tomcat), a DBMS (PostgreSQL or Oracle), Maven, and Ant installed.
How and where is not a DSpace issue; DSpace just needs them. Let
them be installed in whatever way is normal on your OS. Few
computing battles are more unsatisfying than jousting with your
OS' package manager. You do need to know where the servlet
container is installed, but DSpace doesn't require it to be any
particular place.
3) You should find quite a lot of documentation in the DSpace
package, including extensive installation instructions. You
should find them under dspace/docs. For example, if you are
installing DSpace 1.5.2 (and you probably should be, as that is
the latest release) you should find
dspace/docs/pdf/DSpace-Manual.pdf, and in Chapter 3 on page 27 you
should see the beginning of step-by-step installation instructions.
You have to decide where you want to put two trees of directories:
a) the place where you unpack and build DSpace. Put it wherever
is most convenient, such as a subdirectory of your "home"
directory. I would have ~/build/dspace, for example. But
this is your choice. The documentation refers to this as
"[dspace-source]".
b) the place where the installed instance of DSpace will be. Let
yourself be guided by local practice. Here I would place it
in /opt, so I'd have something like /opt/dspace. The
documentation refers to this as "[dspace]".
These paths are not fixed; make them what you need them to be, and
the installation procedure will fix up the configuration as
required to refer to your local value of [dspace]. The bracketed
names are placeholders for your decisions.
There really aren't any fixed answers to "where do I put stuff?" It's
all relative to a few decisions that you make locally according to
convenience and your local standards and procedures.
If that's not enough to get you started, then it would help if you
told us something more specific about your operating environment,
describe your prior experience a bit, and say precisely where you
begin to feel lost.
--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected]
Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents.
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