Installing DSpace 1.7 on Ubuntu 10.10

• Install the server stack (Tomcat, Postgres)

  sudo apt-get install tasksel
  sudo tasksel
  

• Ensure the following packages are selected.

  [*] LAMP server
  [*] PostgreSQL database
  [*] Tomcat Java server
  

• Switch to using Sun/Oracle Java for better performance
  Enable the Canonical Partners repository. This can be done in the GUI by going to Software Sources.

  sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
  # Uncomment the line: deb [http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu] maverick partner
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin
  sudo update-java-alternatives \-l
  # java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
  # java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
  sudo update-java-alternatives \-s java-6-sun
  

*Install the Compile / Build tools

sudo apt-get install ant maven2

• Create the database user and db

  sudo su postgres
  createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace
  exit
  # Edit pg_hba.conf to allow the dspace user to login
  sudo vi /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf
  # Add the following line: local all dspace md5
  sudo service postgresql restart
  createdb \-U dspace \-E UNICODE dspace
  

• Configure Tomcat to know about the DSpace webapps.

  sudo vi /etc/tomcat6/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"/>
  

• Create the [dspace] directory. Default is /dspace

  sudo mkdir /dspace
  

• Download the Source Release

  wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/DSpace%20Stable/1.7.0/dspace-1.7.0-src-release.tar.bz2
  tar -xvjf dspace-1.7.0-src-release.tar.bz2
  

• Compile and Build DSpace

  cd dspace-1.7.0-src-release
  mvn -U package
  cd dspace/target/dspace-1.7.0-build.dir
  sudo ant fresh_install
  

• Fix tomcat permissions, and restart the server

  sudo chown tomcat6:tomcat6 /dspace -R
  sudo service tomcat restart
  

• Done, test it out in your browser http://localhost:8080/xmlui http://localhost:8080/jspui