Installing DSpace 1.4 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Reference documentation: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152#checker

The Installation on Ubuntu 7.04 is very similar to this procedure.

1. Add all repositories (free, non-free, universe) (*System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories -> Add -> * *) and reload.
2. Install tomcat5 package and all associated dependencies
3. Install sun-java5-jdk package and all associated dependencies
4. Install postgresql-8.1 package and all associated dependencies
5. Install libpg-java package for the Postgres JDBC driver
6. Install ant-optional package for regular expression support in build.xml
7. Make Ubuntu use the Sun JDK:

   sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java

8. 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
   sudo mkdir /dspace
   sudo chown dspace /dspace

9. Create the PostgreSQL 'dspace' user and the 'dspace' database. The key here is to issue each command using sudo as the Unix 'postgres' user:

   sudo -u postgres createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace
   sudo -u dspace createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace

10. Now perform the following tasks as the dspace user:

    sudo su - dspace
    bash

11. Download DSpace source (stable) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace in any directory and unpack it. The new DSpace directory is referred to as [dspace-source].
12. Copy the JDBC driver into the [dspace-src]/lib directory as postgresql.jar:

    cp /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc2-8.1.jar [dspace-src]/lib/postgresql.jar
    

13. Configure [dspace-source]/config/dspace.cfg – check to see if email configuration is required for Ubuntu, currently set to local-only
14. cd into the [dspace-source] directory
15. Build the DSpace binaries:

    ant fresh_install

    Remark: If the build fails two things are neccessary to do before a new attempt: 1. remove the remainings of the faild build (execute ant clean), 2. remove the dspace tables from the database (execute dropdb -U dspace dspace). Of course the reason for the failing must be cured too.
16. As root, copy the newly built WAR files into the tomcat webapps directory; then ensure they are owned by the dspace user:

    sudo cp [dspace-source]/build/dspace*.war /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/.
    

17. Create the initial DSpace administrator:

    sudo -u dspace /dspace/bin/create-administrator

18. Append the following lines to /etc/default/tomcat5 to set the preferences necessary for dspace:

    TOMCAT5_USER=dspace
    JDK_DIRS="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun"
    TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no
    

19. Change ownership of the directories to the dspace user:

    sudo chown -R dspace /var/cache/tomcat5
    sudo chown -R dspace /var/lib/tomcat5
    sudo chown -R dspace /var/log/tomcat5

20. Modify the Tomcat properties in /etc/tomcat5/server.xml to use UTF-8 encoding. You can also change the port from the non-standard 8180 to 8080 to match the examples in DSpace documentation:

        <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector"
                   port="8180" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
                   enableLookups="true" acceptCount="10" debug="0"
                   connectionTimeout="20000" useURIValidationHack="false" 
                   URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>

21. Start Tomcat:

    sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start

22. Open the new URL in your Web browser: http://hostname:8180/dspace (adjust for your hostname and port number, accordingly)