I have given a very detailed description about the pre-requirements to installing Pentaho and how to do them in my previous post Pentaho - 2 : Installing Pentaho in Ubuntu, part 1 . In this post I will describe how to install Pentaho BI Server on Ubuntu OS. Download the latest stable version of Pentaho Business Intelligence Server (this posts uses biserver-ce-3.10-stable) from sourceforge. Execute following commands in the terminal (or you can extract the zip file and move the biserver-ce and administration-console directories to a new directory named 'Pentaho' ) According to my preferences I used "/home/user/Pentaho" as my local base directory. You are free to use somewhere else too. But please remember to make a separate folder for our installation as we will be installing several other external software in order to use with Pentaho and it will be much easier if you have all of them inside a common base directory. Note: If you are new to Ubuntu please note that ":~" mark in following terminal commands I have used indicates you are now at the /home/user folder. "$" mark indicates you are at somewhere else than the /home/user/ folder. Therefore you do not have to type that into your terminal too. ;) :~mkdir Pentaho :~mv /home/user/Downloads/ biserver-ce-3.10.0-stable/biserver-ce/ /home/user/Pentaho/ (“/home/user/Downloads/” should be the path where you downloaded the BI server earlier. Above command will move biserver-ce directory to our new Pentaho directory.) :~mv /home/user/Downloads/ biserver-ce-3.10.0-stable/administration-console/ /home/user/Pentaho/ (Above command will move administration-console directory to our new Pentaho directory.) :~cd Pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/bin/ $sudo chmod +x *.sh $cd (Above commands will make catalina.sh file executable.) :~cd Pentaho/biserver-ce/ $sudo chmod +x *.sh $cd .. $cd administration-console/ $sudo chmod +x *.sh Edit 'start-pentaho.sh' file in biserver-ce directory by exporting JAVA_HOME Edit 'start-pac.sh' file in administration-console by exporting JAVA_HOME too Now open a new terminal Pentaho Business Intelligence Server can now be started by executing 'start-pentaho.sh' (default username 'joe' and password 'password')

I have given a very detailed description about the pre-requirements to installing Pentaho and how to do them in my previous post Pentaho - 2 : Installing Pentaho in Ubuntu, part 1 .
In this post I will describe how to install Pentaho BI Server on Ubuntu OS.

• Download the latest stable version of Pentaho Business Intelligence Server (this posts uses biserver-ce-3.10-stable) from sourceforge.
• Execute following commands in the terminal (or you can extract the zip file and move the biserver-ce and administration-console directories to a new directory named 'Pentaho' )

According to my preferences I used "/home/user/Pentaho" as my local base directory. You are free to use somewhere else too. But please remember to make a separate folder for our installation as we will be installing several other external software in order to use with Pentaho and it will be much easier if you have all of them inside a common base directory. 
 
Note: If you are new to Ubuntu please note that ":~" mark in following terminal commands I have used indicates you are now at the /home/user folder. "$" mark indicates you are at somewhere else than the /home/user/ folder. Therefore you do not have to type that into your terminal too. ;)
 

:~mkdir Pentaho

:~mv /home/user/Downloads/ biserver-ce-3.10.0-stable/biserver-ce/ /home/user/Pentaho/

(“/home/user/Downloads/” should be the path where you downloaded the BI server earlier. Above command will move biserver-ce directory to our new Pentaho directory.)

:~mv /home/user/Downloads/ biserver-ce-3.10.0-stable/administration-console/ /home/user/Pentaho/

(Above command will move administration-console directory to our new Pentaho directory.)

:~cd Pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/bin/

$sudo chmod +x *.sh

$cd

(Above commands will make catalina.sh file executable.)

:~cd Pentaho/biserver-ce/

$sudo chmod +x *.sh

$cd ..

$cd administration-console/

$sudo chmod +x *.sh

• Edit 'start-pentaho.sh' file in biserver-ce directory by exporting JAVA_HOME

• Edit 'start-pac.sh' file in administration-console by exporting JAVA_HOME too

• Now open a new terminal
• Pentaho Business Intelligence Server can now be started by executing  'start-pentaho.sh' (default username 'joe' and password 'password')    

:~/Pentaho/biserver-ce$./start-pentaho.sh

It can be stopped by executing 'stop-pentaho.sh'

:~/Pentaho/biserver-ce$./stop-pentaho.sh

Go to your browser and go to the following url http://localhost:8080/pentaho

Be well prepared for next posts too!!! ;)