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====== Compiling Greenstone3 on Ubuntu ======

Note: You need java from the [[http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp|sun website]], **not** from the <tt>sun-java6-jdk</tt> package.

Download a jdk binary installer from the sun website to a location like <tt>~/jdk-6u5-linux-i586.bin</tt>. Then install java:
<code>
chmod +x ~/jdk-6u5-linux-i586.bin
cd /usr/local
sudo ~/jdk-6u5-linux-i586.bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_05
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
</code>

Install some required packages
<code>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion ant autoconf
sudo apt-get upgrade
</code>

Checkout and install Greenstone3
<code>
svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/greenstone3/trunk greenstone3
cd greenstone3
ant
gedit build.properties
  (edit as needed, changing port number for tomcat, etc)
ant prepare install
</code>