[Deploying Sakai] Most hassle-free Linux distribution for 2.7.x?

[Harish Narayanan]

On 8/15/10 9:24 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think you'll find them all to be similar in terms of Sakai. In any case, the build system we use for Sakai is Apache Maven which fetches dependencies and artifacts from the remote repositories automatically, so it's independent of the OS.
> 
> One thing you will want to do is NOT use the built in version of Tomcat, nor any Tomcat installed from a package manager in your OS. Always grab a zip/tar.gz from tomcat.apache.org and extract it yourself, then build Sakai into it. Other tools needed like svn, maven and java can all be managed via the package manager (assuming correct versions are available).

Thank you, Steve. I think I will go through the package manager
repositories for a few big distributions and see which has the most
complete/recent toolkit in relation to Sakai before making my choice.

Harish