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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Installin MarkVision Professional on UBUNTU 7.10

How to:

1) Untar the package:

tar -zxvf markvision-pro-linux-glibc2-x86.tar.gz

2) Install Sun Java:

apt-get install sun-java6-jre

3) Install RPM & alien (alien is RPM support for debian based distributions)

sudo apt-get install rpm
sudo apt-get install alien

4) Convert the rpm package to a Debian package:

sudo alien -k --scripts markvision_pro-MVPServer-11.1-1.i386.rpm

5) Install the Debian Package

sudo dpkg -i markvision-pro-mvpserver_11.1-1_i386.deb

6) Start configuration of MVPPro:

sudo /usr/local/markvision_pro/setup.mvjserver

7) Point to the java machine executable:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/bin/java

8) You Should be done!!!

MS

1 comment:

Shrike said...

Everything else went fine under Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), until MarkVision Professional Boot Time Scripts generation, which failed due to missing directories. Thus symbolic links creation failed. I think this only affects automatic starting of the server at boot time, but who knows.