(Re)installing Apache Tika

http://crunchify.com/how-to-setupinstall-maven-classpath-variable-on-windows-7/
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/tika/tika_environment.htm
http://androidyou.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-download-and-compile-run-tika-on.html
http://www.mkyong.com/maven/how-to-install-maven-in-windows/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7219628/installing-maven-on-windows-7-64bit

Install a Windows subversion client (to make life easier)
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html

Download Tika
This will install all the required Tika packages
SVN > Checkout
URL of repository: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tika/trunk

Download Java SDK
Before downloading Maven, you need the java SDK

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u79-b15/jdk-7u79-windows-x64.exe

Install it to a pathname without spaces, such as c:\j2se1.6.
>>C:\jdk1.7.0_79

Once Java is installed, you must ensure that the commands from the Java SDK are in your PATH environment variable.

Set environmental variable JAVA_HOME to installation dir
Control Panel\System and Security\System
> Advanced system settings > SYSTEM VARIABLES > NEW
JAVA_HOME
C:\jdk1.7.0_79

Append the full path of the Java compiler to the system path
Append the string C:\jdk1.7.0_79 to the end of the system variable ‘PATH’

Download Maven
https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/windows-prerequisites.html

https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

1. navigate in explorer to the Maven directory
2. go to a dir IN the bin
3. copy the address in the address bar(must end with bin)
4. go to Start and type in “env”
5. Select “edit the system evironment variables”
6. find the PATH variable which must also have an existing value for Java as Maven needs Java.
7. append a ; + paste the path.
8. restart to update system
9. run “mvn install” in the client ???

Download the ‘binaries’? *BIN* & *SRC*
http://download.nextag.com/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.zip

Extract to
C:\apache-maven-3.2.5
& C:\apache-maven-3.2.5\src

Maven in PATH

You run Maven by invoking a command-line tool: mvn.bat from the bin directory of the Maven. To do this conveniently, c:\mvn3.0.4\bin must be in your PATH, just like the J2SE SDK commands. You can add directories to your PATH in the control panel; the details vary by Windows version.

Add M2_HOME to sys vars
>>C:\apache-maven-3.2.5

Update PATH variable, append Maven bin folder – %M2_HOME%\bin, so that you can run the Maven’s command everywhere.

Check install using
cmd
mvn –version
Should echo back windows etc.

Go to the src dir
Run mvn install

Now to connect Tika with Pentaho!

Successful Debian (6.0) installation

It’s nice working on a 42″ plasma TV in the living room(!) where the internet router is situated. I managed to get a DVI <> HDMI cable for the old Dell Dimension (which  means no more bulky old Dell monitor)

Installed a Debian image onto the previously WinXP Dell, using Unetbootin and a USB drive.

Fun with .tar files

I now have 5 x R Pi with 32GB SD cards and MongoDB installed on Raspbian O/S, plus MongoDB installed on the old Dell.

I have also installed Oracle Virtual Box which lets you create virtual machines relatively easily.

My new 8-port network switch should hopefully come in the post today.
Should be in business!

Don’t forget, you’ll need to configure WiFi access too! Although for the RPi, this was pretty helpful, as was this & this

The Dell is so old it doesn’t have an internal wireless card. Instead I use a wifi dongle
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]

$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ‘BT’
                    ESSID:”BTHub3-WFF6″
ESSID:”BTHub3-F9Q7″
ESSID:”BTWiFi”
ESSID:”BTWiFi-with-FON”
ESSID:”BTOpenzone-H”
ESSID:”BTFON”
ESSID:”BTHomeHub2-GMGT”

$ man 5 interfaces
$ man 8 wpa_supplicant
$ man 8 iwconfig
$ man 8 iwlist

Take a look/install these Unix GUIs to help with setting up a network connection

• kmanager
• wicd

Configuring a cluster

http://bigdatablog.co.uk/archives/category/installation

Hopefully Mr Hillman (a fellow Dundee student) can lend me a hand when I run into a few difficulties. I think life would be a whole lot simpler if the cluster was pure Linux!