DSpace 6.3 Installation in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

1. sudo apt update

2. sudo apt upgrade

3 sudo useradd -m dspace

4 sudo passwd dspace

5 sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-client -y

6 sudo su postgres

7 sudo -u dspace createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace

8 sudo su postgres

9 sudo nano /etc/postgresql/12/main/pg_hba.conf

Add the following line at the bottom of the configuration.

local all dspace md5

Restart PostgreSQL.

10 sudo systemctl restart postgresql

11 sudo systemctl status postgresql

12 sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk -y

13 sudo update-alternatives --config java

14 sudo apt install ant maven -y

15 sudo apt install git

16 sudo apt update

17 sudo mkdir /dspace

18 sudo chown dspace /dspace

19 sudo mkdir /build

20 sudo chmod -R 777 /build

21 cd /build/

22 wget https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-6.3/dspace-6.3-src-release.tar.gz

23 sudo tar xzvf dspace*.tar.gz

24 cd dspace-6.3-src-release

25 sudo cp dspace/config/local.cfg.EXAMPLE dspace/config/local.cfg

26 sudo mvn -U package

27 cd dspace/target/dspace-installer/

28 sudo ant fresh_install

29 cd /opt/

30 sudo wget https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.65/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.65.tar.gz

31 sudo tar xzvf apache-tomcat-9.0.65.tar.gz

32 sudo mv apache-tomcat-9.0.65 tomcat

33 sudo nano /etc/profile

Add these lines at the bottom, configuration environment variables for Java.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64

export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat

34 sudo cp -r /dspace/webapps/* /opt/tomcat/webapps

35 sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat

Enter the following bash script.

#!/bin/bash

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: tomcat8

# Required-Start: $network

# Required-Stop: $network

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: Start/Stop Tomcat server

### END INIT INFO

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

start() {

sh /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

}

stop() {

sh /opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

}

case $1 in

start|stop) $1;;

restart) stop; start;;

*) echo "Run as $0 <start|stop|restart>"; exit 1;;

esac

Give it executable permissions and set it as service.

36 sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/tomcat

37 sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults

38 sudo service tomcat start

39 sudo service tomcat status

40 sudo /dspace/bin/dspace create-administrator

41 sudo rm -rf /build/

Installing DSpace 5.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04

Installation of prerequisite applications

Open Applications > Accessories > Terminal and execute following commands.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

sudo apt-get install postgresql

sudo apt-get install ant maven

Create the database user

sudo su postgres

createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace

Enter password for new role: [Enter a password e.g. dspace]

Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n

[Enter n and press enter button]

Type exit

Allow the database user (dspace) to connect to the database

[If the following command not open, check the postgresql version number and apply in the command]

sudo gedit /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf

Add this line to the configuration file at the end:

local all dspace md5

save and close the file

Restart PostgreSQL :

sudo su

/etc/init.d/postgresql restart

Create Dspace user

sudo useradd -m dspace

sudo passwd dspace [enter a password for the new user dspace]

sudo mkdir /dspace

sudo chown dspace /dspace

Create the PostgreSQL 'dspace' database

sudo -u dspace createdb -U dspace -E UNICODE dspace

Create build directory for dspace and mavan package download

sudo mkdir /build

sudo chmod -R 777 /build

cd /build

Download Dsapce to /build directory

You can check latest version of Dspace from here.

wget https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-5.4/dspace-5.4-src-release.tar.gz

Extracting Dspace package

tar -zxf dspace-5.4-src-release.tar.gz

cd /build/dspace-4.2-src-release

mvn -U package

(takes long!!!!)

cd /build/dspace-5.4-src-release/

sudo ant fresh_install

Install Tomcat7 ( Version 7.0.68) manually in /opt

cd /opt

sudo wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.68/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.68.tar.gz

sudo tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.68.tar.gz

sudo mv apache-tomcat-7.0.68 tomcat

Configure .bashrc

nano ~/.bashrc

Add following lines to the end of the lines,

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64

export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat

Save and close the file.

Test tomcat

cd /opt/tomcat

sudo ./bin/startup.sh

Start tomcat

Tomcat server works on port 8080 default. Access tomcat on web browser by connecting your server on port 8080.

http://localhost:8080/

Create Tomcat7 Init Script

sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat

paste following script

#!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: tomcat7 # Required-Start: $network # Required-Stop: $network # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/Stop Tomcat server ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin start() { sh /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh } stop() { sh /opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh } case $1 in start) start;; stop) stop;; restart) stop; start;; *) echo "Run as $0 "; exit 1;; esac

Now execute following commands to set proper permissions and symbolic links for init script.

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tomcat sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults

Copy Dspace webapp files to Tomcat

sudo cp -r /dspace/webapps/* /opt/tomcat/webapps/

Make an initial administrator account (an e-person) in DSpace:

/dspace/bin/dspace create-administrator

It will ask to enter email address for user login. Enter an email address

(e.g. dspace@localhost).

Enter First name and surename (e.g. dspace)

Enter a password.

Open Dspace in your browser

You can load either one Dspace interface in a browser.

http://localhost:8080/xmlui

http://localhost:8080/jspui

For information and reference, pls. check Dspace 5.X manual

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-5.4/DSpace-Manual.pdf

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