IGR IT blog – Page 11 – IT Administrator for the IGR at the University of Glasgow

Installing Bedework

Install Java

Needs to be the Oracle JDK. Download the .bin file and make it executable. Create appropriate directory, change to it and run the .bin file.

update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_31/bin/java" 1

Creates link for java in /usr/bin/

update-alternatives --set java "/usr/local/bin/oracle-java-default/bin/java"

Not needed for a clean install – there are no other versions of java on the system.

Then in /etc/environment

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_31"

Gave up at this point and decided to give DAViCal another go.

MATLAB toolbox paths on Linux

It seems sometimes the internal MATLAB paths for the toolboxes can go astray for users – need to go in and correct this manually. Seems to affect the Statistics toolbox a lot.

Interesting problem using the DokuWiki sidebar plugin and headings in the sidebar markup. If you put headings in the table of contents for the page seems to pick these up in preference to the headings in the actual page. Solution – don’t use headings in the sidebar.

DokuWiki data migration

Migrating files in media directory under data works fine. Suspect copying over the pages directory into the new namespace would have worked ok as well, if namespace is flat and links are relative. For hierarchical structures there will be a lot of link editing to do, but that’s almost always the case anyway. And you need to browse all the pages to get them indexed anyway.

Java proxy on Windows – EVO downloading problem

When trying to start EVO it fails with a “Cannot start application” have a look at the detailed error info. There may be something about not being able to connect to the .jnlp file on the web. If so, have a look at the proxy setup of the browser. Fixed one system/account today by changing Firefox proxy from “system” to the normal autoproxy address.