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The remainder of this how-to assumes that you wish to run a test DSpace instance in the virtual machine. If you prefer to run DSpace on the host machine instead, you could instead set up port forwarding for the Virtualbox appliance and use only the database in the virtual machine. In that case, skip the rest of this how-to. |
Run DSpace Remotely (recommended)
If you chose this option, we are assuming you have DSpace installed elsewhere (e.g. on your host machine).
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Download the binary distributions of the ant and maven (2.2.x) from http://ant.apache.org/ and http://maven.apache.org and install them on the virtual machine, for example into ~/software. I symlinked the directories created by unpacking the tarballs so that I had ant in ~/software/ant and maven in ~/software/maven, so I'll use those paths in the rest of the instructions. You'll need to add ~/software/ant/bin and ~/software/maven/bin to the beginning of your PATH variable; eg put at the end of ~/.bash_profile:
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