Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

[cxallan]

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


[bernhard]

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