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The simple act of installing DSpace is actually quite simple, as changing between DSpace versions (eg between 1.6 and 1.7) can be done in a few minutes, however is it the installation and configuration of the prerequisites that is usually time consuming and difficult. Within Ubuntu, this is standard stuff, so we can have Ubuntu do all of that dirty work for us. The following is steps that are performed from Terminal, the command line interface in Ubuntu.
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Install Prerequisites
Install the server stack of Tomcat (web server) and PostgreSQL (database)
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An optional step that can be done after installation would be to switch to the Sun/Oracle Java JDK. The out-of-the-box Java that comes with Ubuntu is the tasksel task to install Tomcat installs the default OpenJDK which is a viable form of Java, however the official recommendation of DSpace are is to use the Sun/Oracle Java JDK which offers better performance and other proprietary enhancements.
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