On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 04:24:30PM -0600, Adam Day wrote: > I'm interested in learning how to install and implement DSpace at my library > for a digital photo repository we would like to create. I have thumbed > through main of the installation guides provided on the DSpace.org website > however I'm not 100% sure of what is needed to get DSpace up and running. I > have some experience with Ubuntu server but would like to know if there is > an easy "how to" installation guide.
Are there any specific things that you don't see "how to"? Ubuntu's package manager should fetch and install Java, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Maven, and Ant for you. You can do that yourself, if you prefer, but you'll need to get instructions on each product from its own site, and work out how you want the DBMS and servlet container to be started at system startup. One thing to be careful of, when using the package manager, is user accounts and file ownership. The DSpace installation instructions assume you are installing the prerequisites by hand, and would have you create a user 'dspace' and install Tomcat to run as that user. The package manager has never heard of DSpace and will probably pick a username such as 'tomcat'. Use the account that the package manager created; don't try to create another named 'dspace' to own DSpace. Tomcat insists on owning nearly every file and directory it touches. DSpace won't care what account is used, and should be owned by whatever owns Tomcat. There's no reason to avoid the package manager if, as I do, you prefer to use it, but you need to keep this simple translation in mind. DSpace also needs an account within the DBMS, which is (typically) separate from the OS account and can be named anything. There's no need to translate it to match the Tomcat account. (I should mention that I run DSpace on Gentoo Linux, and have almost no knowledge specific to Ubuntu. There are others here who do use Ubuntu.) We'd like to improve the documentation, if it is unclear. What parts of http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ch03.html could be better? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_
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