Debian Lenny how to
Short description of how to accomplish some specific task in Debian Lenny.
- How to install Sun java 1.6 on Debian Lenny
- How to install Tomcat 6.x on Debian Lenny
- How to install MySQL on Debian Lenny
How to install Sun java 1.6 on Debian Lenny
And not the OpenJDK, as sometimes some applications do not work without the SUN JDK
Edit APT sources list
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
The original Sun Java 2 is available in the ‘non-free’ section of the Debian repositories. To enable this section first add the non-free repository to the apt sources file – the /etc/apt/sources.list should look like, – important parts are in bold:
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main
Update the list of sources
#
apt-get update
Install java
# apt-get install sun-java6-bin
Just follow and select
How to install Tomcat 6 on Debian Lenny
Create new file
# vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/squeeze.list
and put inside
# Repository for Squeeze, to get Tomcat6
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
Create new file
# vi /etc/apt/preferences
And put inside
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: tomcat6,tomcat6-admin,tomcat6-common,libtomcat6-java,libservlet2.5-java
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 990
Update sources
# apt-get update
Upgrade
# apt-get upgrade
To locate the correct package name, search for it
# apt-cache search tomcat
Found
tomcat6
Install
# apt-get install -t testing tomcat6
You may want also to install the tomcat manager
# apt-get install -t testing tomcat6-admin
Create new users/roles for tomcat manager
# vi /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml
NOTA: Webapp are located in
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapp
How to install MYSQL on Debian Lenny
Luckily MYSQL 5.0 is available in the default source list of APT.
# apt-cache search mysql
# apt-get install mysql-server-5.0
Open a mysql prompt
Grant access to root from any host, this is insecure for production machine but in case of continuous build machine, development this is sometimes very useful.
Let root connect not only from localhost by running
# mysql –u root –p
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set host = ‘%’ where user = ‘root’ and host=’127.0.0.1′
mysql> flush privileges;
Bad written code (DAO) will sometimes forces you to start MYSQL using insensitive casing table. In windows it will always work as the operating system do not make any difference between lower and upper case. In Linux, either you change your DAO’s or if you can’t, use this kind of trick:
Case insensitive table in MYSQL
# vi /etc/mysql/conf.d/lower_case_table_names.cnf
Put inside file
[mysqld]
lower_case_table_names = 1
Restart mysql
# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
