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From: Juma Lungo <jumal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Dhis-dev] Setting up DHIS 2 on Ubuntu 8.10
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Hi Bob
any particular reason for not using Ubuntu 8.10.
is it because of short period of support?
we are currently deploying DHIS2 in 8.10 as production servers
and every thing is currently fine.

Lungo

On Fri, March 20, 2009 18:58, Bob Jolliffe wrote:
> 2009/3/20 Orvalho Joaquim Augusto <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I have DHIS 2 running on Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10.
>>
>> Lars recommends to download tomcat from the official tomcat
>> site.
>>
>> OK. But beaware that for a really heavy production
>> environment you must
>> compile the jsvc as it is documented on
>> $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc.tar.gz file.
>> If you dont you will loose on performance.
>>
>> For people that prefer to use 8.10 tomcat version... It works
>> too. It sounds
>> little strange to be broken.
>>
>> One more note: Pay attenyion to apparmor in case you decide
>> to change the
>> database folder of mysql. You must stop it or learn to
>> configure it.
>
> Yes we hit an SELinux snag putting mysql data on its own
> partition on
> CentOS server in HISP India office  ... "stop it" was easier
> than
> "learn to configure it".  One day they will have a proper
> sysadmin who
> will do it nicely.
>
>> Caveman
>>
>>
>>
>> Lars Helge ?verland wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been setting up the DHIS 2 application and
>>> development environment
>>> on Ubuntu 8.10 in order to test things properly in a linux
>>> environment as
>>> well. Just wanted to share the experience which has been
>>> really convenient
>>> and nice: Almost everything you need can be found in the
>>> Synaptic Package
>>> manager, just go there, search for and install:
>>>
>>> - maven2
>>> - bzr
>>> - eclipse
>>> - postgresql
>>> - mysql-server
>>>
>>> Firefox is already installed. The only hickup was Tomcat,
>>> which version in
>>> the package repo is just broken. Just install the one from
>>> the official site
>>> instead:
>>> - Download manually from
>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi and put
>>> anywhere, eg /usr/local/tomcat6.
>>> - Put the attached tomcat file in /etc/init.d/, chmod 755
>>> it, then start
>>> with /etc/init.d/tomcat start
>
> This is my environment as well.  Mind you I probably wouldn't
> go for
> 8.10 in a production environment anyway.  Better to stick with
> the
> 8.04 LTS or the upcoming 9.04.  But for development it is
> great.
>
> Bob
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>






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