Installing DSpace 6.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Open the terminal and put the command

sudo apt-get update

Install Java on your Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Install ant on your Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ant


Install maven on your Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install maven


Install Apache Tomcat 7:
sudo apt-get install tasksel

sudo tasksel

Select the following packages tomcat java server only by putting (*)

Add DSpace User to system

useradd -m dspace

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-6.0/dspace-6.0-src-release.tar.gz

Install PostgreSQL 9.6

Add PostgreSQL Apt Repository


sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'

wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -



Install PostgreSQL

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

sudo su - postgre

createuser --username=postgres --no-superuser --pwprompt dspace

createdb --username=postgres --owner=dspace --encoding=UNICODE dspace

psql --username=postgres dspace -c "CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;"


sudo mkdir /build

sudo chmod -R 777 /build

cd /build

Install DSpace repository

wget https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-6.2/dspace-6.2-release.tar.gz

tar -zxf dspace-6.2-release.tar.gz

cd /dspace-6.2-src-release

mvn -U package

cd dspace/target/dspace-installer

(if target is not available in /dspace, then try cd /dsapce/dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/target/dspace-installer)



sudo ant fresh_install


Create ADMINISTRATOR for DSpace

/dspace/bin/dspace create-administrator

sudo service tomcat7 stop

udo cp -r /dspace/webapps/xmlui/ /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps

sudo cp -r /dspace/webapps/oai/ /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps

sudo cp -r /dspace/webapps/solr/ /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps


Fix Tomcat permissions, and restart the Tomcat server

sudo chown tomcat7:tomcat7 /dspace -R

sudo service tomcat7 start



Test DSpace xmlui  in your browser

That is all that is required to install DSpace on Ubuntu.

There are two main webapps that provide a

similar turn-key repository interface

http://localhost:8080/xmlui