<div class="docbook"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2.5. Installation on UNIX platforms</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationWindows.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Installation</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Java-Broker-Installation-OptionalDependencies.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationUnix"></a>2.5. Installation on UNIX platforms</h2></div></div></div><p> Firstly, verify that your JVM is installed properly by following <a class="link" href="Java-Broker-Miscellaneous.html#Java-Broker-Miscellaneous-JVM-Verification-Unix" title="F.1.2. Verify JVM on Unix">these instructions.</a>
    </p><p>Now chose a directory for Qpid broker installation. This directory will be used for the
      Qpid JARs and configuration files. It need not be the same location as the work directory used
      for the persistent message store or the log file (you will choose this location later). For
      the remainder this example we will assume that location /usr/local/qpid has been
      chosen.</p><p>Next extract the qpid-broker-9.2.0-bin.tgz package into the directory.</p><pre class="programlisting">mkdir /usr/local/qpid
cd /usr/local/qpid
tar xvzf qpid-broker-9.2.0-bin.tgz</pre><p>The extraction of the broker package will have created a directory
      qpid-broker/9.2.0 within /usr/local/qpid</p><pre class="screen">ls -la qpid-broker/9.2.0/
total 56
drwxrwxr-x. 5 alex alex  4096 Nov 25 11:43 .
drwxrwxr-x. 3 alex alex  4096 Nov 25 11:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 alex alex  4096 Nov 24 23:38 bin
drwxr-xr-x. 2 alex alex  4096 Nov 24 23:38 etc
drwxrwxr-x. 2 alex alex  4096 Nov 25 11:43 lib
-rw-r--r--. 1 alex alex 28143 Nov 24 23:38 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--. 1 alex alex  3409 Nov 24 23:38 NOTICE
-rw-r--r--. 1 alex alex   116 Nov 24 23:38 README.txt
    </pre><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationUnix-SettingQPIDWORK"></a>2.5.1. Setting the working directory</h3></div></div></div><p>Qpid requires a work directory. This directory is used for the default location of the
        Qpid log file and is used for the storage of persistent messages. The work directory can be
        set on the command-line (for the lifetime of the current shell), but you will normally want
        to set the environment variable permanently the user's shell profile file (~/.bash_profile
        for Bash etc).</p><pre class="screen">export QPID_WORK=/var/qpidwork
      </pre><p>If the directory referred to by <a class="link" href="Java-Broker-Appendix-Environment-Variables.html#Java-Broker-Appendix-Environment-Variables-Qpid-Work">QPID_WORK</a> does not
        exist, the Broker will attempt to create it on start-up. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationWindows.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="Java-Broker-Installation.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Java-Broker-Installation-OptionalDependencies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">2.4. Installation on Windows </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="Apache-Qpid-Broker-J-Book.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 2.6. Optional Dependencies</td></tr></table></div></div>