Hello, Thanks for point 3.
I've seen an installation where [dspace] pointed to [dspace-source]/dspace. And the documentation is unclear whether it is a good choice or not. Your explanation should be added to the documentation. -- François On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Mark H. Wood<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
