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Manual Installation

Markus Rathgeb edited this page Mar 18, 2015 · 2 revisions

Download & Unzip

Download the latest version from the releases page.

Unzip the file at a location where the server binaries should be placed.

It is a good idea to give the installation a dedicated (non-root) user.

Starting the server

Note: Before 0.0.6 there are no SysV, Upstart, systemd or other startup scripts (see issue #9). However these startup script come with the RPM and DEB packages. But are still checked into the repository and can be found there.

Change into the directory that was just unzipped and start the server by executing:

$ ./server

Or (if your Java 8 installation is at /opt/java8 and your shell is bash):

$ JAVA_HOME=/opt/java8 ./server

Before version 0.0.4 this had to be done explicitly, which is still possible:

$ java -jar plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar

Note: If java is not located in you local PATH, or the java executable on you PATH is not Java 8, then you need to specific the correct location of a Java 8 installation using the environment variable JAVA_HOME

Note: In order to run the server in the background and still be able to access the OSGi console, you can use the screen command.

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