IDempiere/Install Prerequisites on Ubuntu

For reference this tutorial is done using the following versions:

• Ubuntu 11.04 64 bits
• PostgreSQL 8.4.9
• Mercurial Client 1.7.5
• JDK 1.6.0.26
• Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers 3.7.1 Indigo
• Mercurial Eclipse Plugin 1.9.1
• Buckminster 3.7

But it must work with other versions as well.

Install Ubuntu

Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Install PostgreSQL 8.4.9

iDempiere can also run with Oracle 10G or 11G, and also with PostgreSQL 9.1, but for this tutorial we use postgresql 8.4.9

sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.4

Install Mercurial Client 1.7.5

sudo apt-get install mercurial

Install Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1

Download the corresponding version for your operating system from "Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers"

For Ubuntu 11.04 64 bits I downloaded from here

On ubuntu the installation of eclipse is just uncompress it and is ready for usage, for the rest of the session let's suppose we uncompressed eclipse on a folder called $ECLIPSE_HOME