Installation of the BIRT All-in-One package is as simple as opening the ZIP file in
an archiving utility such as WinZip and extracting the contents to an installation
directory of your choice. I typically use C:\Eclipse as my base installation directory.
Installing BIRT All-In-One under Linux
In Linux, installation is very similar. The archive file containing the All-in-One
package is a standard Linux tarball file. One recommendation for the Linux
installers: I recommend using Sun's Java instead of the GNU Java. The GNU Java is
compliant to an older specification of Java than BIRT requires, and some features
will not work correctly under Linux. Installing Sun Java under Linux can vary,
based on the distribution of Linux you use and the distributor's views of the Sun
license on Java. I have chronicled my experiences getting Sun Java to work under
Ubuntu Linux, a free desktop-oriented distribution of Linux based on Debian,
as well as CentOS, a free alternative to Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, on my blog
(http://digiassn.blogspot.com/). For your distribution, see the appropriate
documentation on getting Sun Java installed, and getting it to execute as the default
Java Runtime.
Also, based on the version of BIRT you run, you will need one of the two different
Java versions. For BIRT versions prior to 2.
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