Installation of prerequisite applications
Open Applications > Accessories > Terminal and execute following commands. Text in italics are commands to be executed.
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
sudo apt-get install tasksel sudo tasksel
Select the following packages.
Use space bar for select applications from list.
[*] LAMP server [*] PostgreSQL database [*] Tomcat Java server
use tab to select OK button and enter. Packages will start to install.
On the way you have to give MySQL root password. MySQL not necessary for Dspace installation. |
sudo apt-get install ant maven
Create the database user (dspace)
sudo su postgres createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace
enter password for new role (select a password like dspace) Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
Exit from the promp, type exit
Allow the database user (dspace) to connect to the database [If the following command not open, check the postgresql version number and apply in the command]
sudo gedit /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf
Add this line to the configuration file at the end:
local all dspace md5
save and close the file
Restart PostgreSQL : sudo su enter,
then paste the following line and enter
/etc/init.d/postgresql restart
Create the Unix 'dspace' user, update the passwd, create the directory in which you will install dspace, and ensure that the Unix 'dspace' user has write privileges on that directory:
sudo useradd -m dspace
sudo passwd dspace (enter any password like dspace for the new user dspace)
sudo mkdir /dspace
sudo chown dspace /dspace
Create the PostgreSQL 'dspace' database.
sudo -u dspace createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace
Configure Tomcat to know about the DSpace webapps.
[If the following command not open, check the tomcat version number and apply in the command]
sudo gedit /etc/tomcat7/server.xml
Insert the following chunk of text just above the closing </Host>
<!-- Define a new context path for all DSpace web apps -->
<Context path="/xmlui" docBase="/dspace/webapps/xmlui" allowLinking="true"/>
<Context path="/sword" docBase="/dspace/webapps/sword" allowLinking="true"/>
<Context path="/oai" docBase="/dspace/webapps/oai" allowLinking="true"/>
<Context path="/jspui" docBase="/dspace/webapps/jspui" allowLinking="true"/>
<Context path="/lni" docBase="/dspace/webapps/lni" allowLinking="true"/>
<Context path="/solr" docBase="/dspace/webapps/solr" allowLinking="true"/> |
save and close the file a
This following step downloads the compressed archive from SourceForge, and unpacks it in your current directory. The dspace-1.x.x-src-release directory is typically referred to as [dspace-src]. You can also download direct from Sourceforge website.
sudo mkdir /build
sudo chmod -R 777 /build
cd /build
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dspace/DSpace%20Stable/3.1/dspace-3.1-release.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf dspace-3.1-src-release.tar.bz2
cd /build/dspace-3.1-src-release
mvn -U package cd dspace/target/dspace-3.1-build
sudo ant fresh_install
Fix Tomcat permissions, and restart the Tomcat server
sudo chown tomcat7:tomcat7 /dspace -R
Restart Tomcat
/etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart
Make an initial administrator account (an e-person) in DSpace:
/dspace/bin/dspace create-administrator
Test it out in your browser
That is all that is required to install DSpace on Ubuntu. There are two main webapps that provide a similar turn-key repository interface
