My earlier notes for 14.04 basically work fine on Ubuntu 16.04 but I've corrected and improved a few things in this version.
DSpace 5's Mirage 2 requires some extra setup if you want to tweak the base config and rebuild it. As Mirage 2 is based on the Bootstrap framework it needs a few NodeJS and Ruby packages to be available in the build environment.
We build and deploy DSpace from the tomcat7
system user (which is the default user for Tomcat on Ubuntu), and there are a few assumptions that must be met to allow the installation of NodeJS and Ruby:
- The
tomcat7
user must be able to write to its home folder —/usr/share/tomcat7
— so it can create the~/.nvm
,~/.npm
,~/.rvm
,~/.gnupg
and other directories during installation - The
~tomcat7/.profile
file must exist and be writable before installingnvm
andrvm
, as this is the default config file for lo