HOWTO: install Fedora-commons repository software on Debian
So I’ve been using Fedora-commons for almost a year, first off, no it is NOT the Linux distribution, it is a digital repository used by libraries, museums, etc, worldwide to keep track of their digital collections. For this Fedora-commons is very good at its job, but there was a steep learning curve when I first jumped in with, a complaint I’ve heard repeated by many who aren’t Java jockeys (just made that up). Today I had to reinstall Fedora-commons on a new development server, and to be honest I had a couple of missteps along the way as I tried to remember my super cool moves to install this app. Once something like this happens it’s a prime candidate for a HOWTO, so here is my super, simple HOWTO get Feodora-commons up and running in a development environment in Debian GNU/Linux (I’m running Lenny – 5.0) or Ubuntu Linux. Notice that for simplicity’s sake, this uses Fedora-commons built in Tomcat implementation, for developing this is fine, for production I highly recommend installing a Tomcat via dpkg/apt-get, or whatever package manager you use, so that any security patches will be available for apt-get to automatically update. I’ve also set it to use a local MySQL store, change to a different database if you need to. (more…)
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