[Workshops] Machine setup

Etienne Dube etdube at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 18:43:19 EDT 2009


Hi Justin,

Good, it's fine for us too. I'll put JDK 6u16 in the software to be 
installed. JAVA_HOME can point to it and our Tomcat instance will be happy.

Etienne


Justin Deoliveira a écrit :
> Hi Etienne,
>
> We require a JDK (not just a JRE) for GeoServer to run. Version 6 will 
> be fine for us.
>
> -Justin
>
> Etienne Dube wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any other workshop that requires a Java JRE? We'll be using 
>> the Java 6 Update 16 JRE in workshop_01 (Geospatial BI with FOSS). 
>> Everything else is self-contained in a directory under C:\. Could 
>> Java be pre-installed on the machines? Any possible version conflicts 
>> (i.e. if anyone requires a Java 5 JRE)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>>
>> Mark Leslie a écrit :
>>> Damnit, this one slipped past me last week.
>>> All we've got going so far is 
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Workshop_Computer_Setup, 
>>> which really isn't up to this task, and is already incomplete.  As a 
>>> general rule, I would prefer to have nothing installed as an 
>>> automatic service.  We can setup links to load applications/services 
>>> as needed, but it seems easiest to not have everything running by 
>>> default.  That way port conflicts shouldn't be a hugh issue 
>>> (optimism?).
>>> It will still cause collisions on install directories, in particular 
>>> for workshops that involve an installation step, and service names.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Apologies if this has been covered already but is there a wiki page 
>>>> up that lists all the software that is going to be installed on all 
>>>> the workshop machines? I know last year we set this up and it was 
>>>> quite useful in order to resolve any version conflicts, and more 
>>>> importantly any port conflicts between running services.
>>>>
>>>> -Justin
>>>>
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