Open Microscopy Environment

WARNING: Please be aware that the following may get you into package manager problems. If you want a safer clean install please use Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) or later which includes Ice 3.3.x as part of the base Universe package set.

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• Made sure apt-get update was included in Step 2

Step 1: Adding Intrepid APT sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

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## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

# Added for Ice 3.3.0 packages from Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
# Chris Allan <callan@openmicroscopy.org.uk>
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe

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Step 2: Pinning your Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) base packages so that you do not mess up your system

WARNING: Add the following contents to /etc/apt/preferences (create it if it does not exist) carefully or you will end up with a broken system. Read the apt_preferences man page if you have any doubts.

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Package: *
Pin: release a=hardy
Pin-Priority: 1


Step 3: Install OMERO

As root...

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apt-get update
apt-get install python-zeroc-ice ice33-services sun-java6-jdk python-sqlite \
  postgresql-8.3
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start
sudo -u postgres createuser -P -D -R -S omero
sudo -u postgres createdb -O omero omero
sudo -u postgres createlang plpgsql omero
sudo mkdir /OMERO
chown -R <user>:<group> /OMERO


As <user>...

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wget http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/snapshots/omero/omero-Beta4.0.3.tar.bz2
tar jxvf omero-Beta4.0.3.tar.bz2
cd omero_dist
bin/omero db script
psql -h localhost -U omero omero < OMERO4__0.sql
bin/omero admin start
bin/omero admin ice
server enable Web
server start Web


AFAIK there is no difference except the desktop manager and corresponding libraries. Both distros could run the others desktop manager if one installs the required packages. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu

Cheers, Bernhard