This documentation refers to an earlier version of Islandora. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/ISLANDORA/Start is current.

Install Java 6/7 jdk (Oracle)

 Open a command line interface and enter the following (Ubuntu):

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default


For other *nix variants you may have to add other repos or manually download and install Java.

Setup MySQL database

 Assuming an existing MySQL installation, execute the following:
 

create database [fedoradatabase];
GRANT ALL ON [fedoradatabase].* TO [fedoradbuser] IDENTIFIED BY [password]; 
 
flush privileges;
exit
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  1. It should be mentioned that other steps in the installation will expect the name of the database to be fedora3 and the user fedoraAdmin.