Installing the Visualization Platform module on Linux
For information about accessing Visualization Platform after installation, see Setting up BIRT iHub. To install multiple BIRT iHub modules on the same system, see Using the command-line installation package on Linux.
How to run the Visualization Platform installation script on Linux
1 Download the installation package, BIRTiHubVisualization-ihub3.tar.gz, from the software distribution site.
2 Decompress the package into a tar file and then unbundle the tar file into the folder where you want to install the software, such as /opt/actuate. Unbundling the tar file creates the folder BIRTiHubVisualization.
3 Navigate to /opt/actuate/BIRTiHubVisualization.
4 Open and read the file, license.pdf. You must agree to the license terms in order to install BIRT iHub Visualization Platform.
5 Using a text editor, open the acinstall.properties file, as shown in Listing 2‑2, and perform the following tasks:
Listing 2‑2 acinstall.properties for installing BIRT iHub Visualization Platform
#Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:19:16 -0700
ac.login=//machine/actuate
ac.password=password
ac.package=b
ac.homedir=.
ac.downloadonly=false
##ac.source=.
#ac.source=.
ac.runasservice=true
ac.runasservice_username=
ac.runasservice_password=
 
# By changing the value of the ac.acceptlicense parameter
# to “y” you agree to the terms of the license agreement
# in the file “license.pdf” located in the same folder as
# this parameter file.
ac.acceptlicense=y
 
#Advanced Settings
#ac.ihub_cluster_schema_name=
#ac.ihub_postgres_port=
1 Modify the ac.login and ac.password properties to contain the login and password for the network machine that contains the installable BIRT iHub product modules.
2 Modify the ac.homedir property to specify the path to the installation files if you do not run the installation script from the directory to which you extracted the files.
3 Leave ac.downloadonly set to false.
4 Set ac.acceptlicense to y to accept the software license terms.
5 Save and close the file.
6 Execute the install.sh script using the following command:
sh ./install.sh
Messages similar to the following ones appear:
Install will start now...
[echo] Downloading from given file system location
[echo] Verifying Checksum...
[echo] Completed verification
[echo] Extracting package Actuate BIRT iHub
[echo] Installing Actuate BIRT iHub. This may take a few minutes...
[echo] "Setup did not detect a valid JDK installation on your machine"
[echo] Downloading from given file system location
[echo] Verifying Checksum...
[echo] Extracting package JDK64
[echo] iHub3 prerequisite 64-bit JDK was missing. Setup will now install 64-bit JDK on your machine
[echo] Using default PostgreSQL database port number 8432
[echo] Using default schema name
[echo] To access Information Console, use URL: http://localhost:8700/iportal
[echo] Setup Completed
 
INSTALL SUCCEEDED
Total time: 2 minutes 46 seconds
installation complete