Islandora is a free and open source digital asset management system based on Drupal. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Islandora on the latest version of OpenSUSE.
Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Before installation, we need to install some dependencies required for Islandora.
You can install them by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo zypper install tomcat apache2 ant mysql-client mysql-community-server mysql-connector-java unoconv tesseract-ocr ffmpeg poppler-utils ClamAV clamav-freshclam
This command will install Tomcat, Apache2, Ant, MySQL, and some other packages required for Islandora.
Islandora requires Java to run on the system. OpenSUSE comes with OpenJDK pre-installed. You can check whether Java is installed or not by running the following command:
java -version
If Java is not installed, you can install it using the following command:
sudo zypper install java-1_8_0-openjdk
To install Islandora, we need to download and extract the Islandora package from the official website.
You can download the latest version of Islandora from this link: https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/archive/master.zip
Once you have downloaded the package, extract it using the following command:
unzip master.zip
After extraction, navigate to the extracted directory using the following command:
cd islandora-master
Now, run the following command to install Islandora:
sudo ant install
This command will start the installation process, which may take some time depending on your system resources.
After Islandora has been successfully installed, you can start the services using the following command:
sudo systemctl start tomcat
sudo systemctl start apache2
Once the installation is completed, we need to verify the installation of Islandora.
Open your web browser and go to the following URL: http://localhost:8080/xmlui
If you see the Islandora homepage, it means that the installation was successful.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Islandora on OpenSUSE. We hope this tutorial helped you to install and configure Islandora on your system.
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