[Deploying Sakai] Installing Sakai on Ubuntu

[Mark Smith]

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

I had a lot of problems trying to do a manual install Java 1.5 on the latest
version of Ubuntu, 10.4. I installed the jdk  .bin file, but had significant
problems afterward; there appeared to be something wrong with the
update-alternatives-java file.  I figured it would be easier to go back to
an older version of Ubuntu with the Java 1.5 in the repository so I could
just install it using a .deb.  I thought I'd just go with the latest 8 or
one of the version 9 distributions (anyone know if version 9 includes 1.5 in
the repos?)

 

Thanks, David, for the warning about tomcat. I will definitely download from
Apache.

 

Mark

 

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[mailto:production-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Jones
Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 13:28
To: Mike De Simone
Cc: production at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Deploying Sakai] Installing Sakai on Ubuntu

 

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,

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Mike DeSimone
Sr. Technical Consultant
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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