OK, her is the way I did it months ago: ---- geoServer apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-fonts unzip geoserver-2.0.1-bin.zip -d geoserver apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin edit /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml and add propriate users some more helps here: http://grimmeister.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/revisiting-geoserver-on-ubuntu/ add in: /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/04webapps.policy at the end: permission java.security.AllPermission; edit: /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/setclasspath.sh and add near the first line: CATALINA_OPTS="-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/data/geoserver_data" ----- Go to http://localhost:8080/ (resp. your servername) and deploy the geoserver-XXX.war
Worked for me Greetings from Vienna, Austria Wolfgang -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pumphrey [mailto:m...@opengeo.org] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:55 PM To: johnrobot Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] How to install GeoServer on Ubuntu? Hi Magnus. What do you mean that page isn't informative? :) I unfortunately don't have an answer (not much of a Linux user) but if someone comes through with a viable installation checklist, I will gladly add it to the docs. Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org On 11/4/2010 4:46 PM, johnrobot wrote: > > Hi > I am looking for documentation on how to install GeoServer 2.0.2 on Ubuntu > 10.04. The Linux section over at > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/installation/binary/linux.html is > not so informative. I don't have much Linux/Ubuntu experience, so any > documentation or step by step guide would be of great help to me. > > Regards, > > Magnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users