| <div class="docbook"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><th align="center" colspan="3">2.5. Installation on UNIX platforms</th></tr><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationWindows.html">Prev</a> </td><th align="center" width="60%">Chapter 2. Installation</th><td align="right" width="20%"> <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-7.1.9-bin.tgz package into the directory.</p><pre class="programlisting">mkdir /usr/local/qpid |
| cd /usr/local/qpid |
| tar xvzf qpid-broker-7.1.9-bin.tgz</pre><p>The extraction of the broker package will have created a directory |
| qpid-broker/7.1.9 within /usr/local/qpid</p><pre class="screen">ls -la qpid-broker/7.1.9/ |
| 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 summary="Navigation footer" width="100%"><tr><td align="left" width="40%"><a accesskey="p" href="Java-Broker-Installation-InstallationWindows.html">Prev</a> </td><td align="center" width="20%"><a accesskey="u" href="Java-Broker-Installation.html">Up</a></td><td align="right" width="40%"> <a accesskey="n" href="Java-Broker-Installation-OptionalDependencies.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" width="40%">2.4. Installation on Windows </td><td align="center" width="20%"><a accesskey="h" href="Apache-Qpid-Broker-J-Book.html">Home</a></td><td align="right" valign="top" width="40%"> 2.6. Optional Dependencies</td></tr></table></div></div> |
