Installation

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System Administration Guide

System Requirements

Installation Upgrading

Appliance Ubuntu Amazon EC2 Custom installation

Activation

Deployment options

This article describes the installation procedure for Openbravo 3.

In this release, you can install Openbravo following four different approaches:

1. Openbravo Appliance (recommended): you can download and install a fully configured appliance that runs in your preferred virtualization environment. The appliance includes both Openbravo as well as its underlaying technology stack and allows you to get started with Openbravo in just a few minutes and with only a few clicks. This is the recommended option for most Windows, Linux and Mac OSX users.
2. Ubuntu Installation (recommended): Openbravo is included in the Ubuntu partner repository, so that you can add the software quickly and easily to your Ubuntu server. This is the recommended option for Ubuntu users.
3. Amazon EC2 (recommended): Ready to use Openbravo 3 on the Cloud? You can have a production ready system ready in around 5 minutes.
4. Custom deployment (experts only): a custom installation gives you the ability to deploy Openbravo under special circumstances or requirements. Most probably this is not the guide you are looking for, it requires a high dedication, a high knowledge of the software stack and a no fear to build components manually.

Choosing your deployment option

The Openbravo 3 deployment options are clearly divided into two groups. The first group includes pre-configured and optimized deploymeent packages available to save time and money:

• Openbravo Appliance.
• Ubuntu package.
• Amazon EC2 images (AMIs): both using the Openbravo Appliance and the Ubuntu package.

These are the recommended options for most of the cases. They allow you to start an evaluation, testing or production environment which is fully optimized and will allow you to scale. Either if you are running Windows, Linux or Mac OSX.

The second differentiated group includes installing from sources. This is useful for very specific deployment needs and it discouraged for most users.

Configuring the default date and time formats

To change the default Openbravo date format launch the setup tool inside the config/setup-tool directory.

Once all the changes are done, recompile and deploy Openbravo:

ant smartbuild

Restart Tomcat afterwards.

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