iDempiere Installation on Debian

Here is an example of installation guide for Debian. For Ubuntu / Linux Mint, it is familiar.

Prerequisites

Please prepare following environments before installation:

OS: Debian Wheezy 7.5.0 amd64
Database: PostgreSQL 9.1
JVM: sun-jre-1.6.0_45
iDempiere 1.0c

Still need following for a server ? Somebody please give advise:

   Mercurial Client 1.7.5
   Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers 3.7.2 Indigo
   Mercurial Eclipse Plugin 1.9.1
   Buckminster 3.7

Resources

Install Debian 7.5.0: Debian.org
Intall PostgreSQL 9.1:

  sudo aptitude install postgresql-9.1

Attention: Please create an user "adempiere" for installation.

Download iDempiere server : SourceForge.net: iDempiere 1.0c Server
Download iDempiere client: SourceForge.net:iDempiere 1.0c swing-client

Sun JRE 1.6

Install Sun JRE 1.6 / Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 6u45.

Debian repository stopped providing Sun JRE from Debian 7.0, you should install it mannualy.

Go to Oracle official archive site to download sun-jre-1.6 . Oracle.com:Java SE 6

Attention: you are required to regester to download.

For iDempiere Server running, we need Java SE Runtime Environment 6u45 , just download jre-6u45-linux-x64.bin
Go to the path:

  cd /usr/bin/jvm

Make the file executable:

  chmod +x jre-6u45-linux-x64.bin

Extract the package to current path:

 ./jre-6u45-linux-x64.bin

Check jvm

  update-alternatives --display java

Update alternatives:

  update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_45/bin/java 1067

Install

Install Server

Unzip Server

  cd /home/iDempiere
  unzip idempiereServer.gtk.linux.x86_64.zip

Navigate to the idempiere-server folder, for example

  cd /home/iDempiere/idempiere.gtk.linux.x86_64/idempiere-server

Setup and install the server

  sh setup.sh

Import the Database

PostgreSQL 9.1 or higher

This is the default way to import the database for oracle (10g or 11) and postgresql 9.1 or higher:

After setting up the server (is a prerequisite) you can run:

  cd utils
  sh RUN_ImportIdempiere.sh

PostgreSQL 8.4 or 9.0

If you're going to install the official installers in postgresql 8.4 or 9.0 you must run the following commands:

After setting up the server (is a prerequisite) you can run:

  cd utils
  sh RUN_ImportIdempiere.sh 8.4

Please note daily installers do not support these postgresql old versions

Install Swing Client

Unzip the client installer you downloaded or created, for example:

  cd /home/iDempiere
  unzip idempiereClient.gtk.linux.x86_64.zip

Navigate to the adempiere-client folder, for example

  cd /home/iDempiere/adempiere.gtk.linux.x86_64/adempiere-client

Run and setup adempiere-client

  sh adempiere-client.sh

Run iDempiere

Run iDempiere Server

  cd /home/iDempiere/adempiere.gtk.linux.x86_64/idempiere-server
  sh idempiere-server.sh

How to stop iDempiere Server? Somebady please give advise.

Running iDempiere from Swing Client

  cd /home/iDempiere/adempiere.gtk.linux.x86_64/adempiere-client
  sh adempiere-client.sh

Installation on Debian

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