[Deploying Sakai] Installing Sakai on Ubuntu

[Matthew Jones]

Agreed, using java (as long as you pick 1.5 for older versions of Sakai),
apache and other packages are good ideas. Even on older versions of ubuntu
(that are LTS) it should have the java security updates. The package looks
like sun-java5-jdk on hardy, not the java that's installed by default. You
can install them both and "update-alternatives --config java".

However since Sakai installs so much stuff into tomcat, and has
some peculiarities depending on the version, it's better just to use one
downloaded from the apache website. Many from various forums [1] and this
list in the past have recommended against using the tomcat provided.There's
nothing to install for tomcat, just uncompress it and it's done. And there
are a lot of scripts around the net for auto starting it from init.d if
desired.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1262645

-Matthew

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Mike De Simone <michael.desimone at rsmart.com
> wrote:

> That's a good point David.  Also, since Sakai 2.6.x requires java 1.5, the
> repo installed version in Ubuntu may not be 1.5 by default, so that would
> also be a candidate for manual installation (not what you are looking for,
> but on the upside, it's quick & easy to install jdk .bin file in linux).
>
> On the other hand, I just double checked my ubuntu repo and it has java 1.5
> and 1.6 as options.  However, I'm running 8.10 which is a little older, not
> sure what newer ones will have available.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -------------------------------
> Mike DeSimone
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> rSmart
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>
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:58, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I can't advise on the version of ubuntu (we use Sles) - however I would
>> strongly advise you not to use the version of tomcat installed through
>> the repo - there a reason the docs recommend downloading the binaries
>> from Apache and using those.
>>
>> D
>>
>> On 05/21/2010 03:36 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am wondering: what version of Ubuntu is best for installing Sakai 2.6?
>> I want to be easily able to install all of the necessary prerequisites
>> (Java, Tomcat, etc.) through the repositories.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mark Smith
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