Installing Cocoon 2.1.8 on Solaris 10

As of version 2.1 Apache Cocoon does not provide any binaries so you will need to compile it from source.

• Download latest version of Cocoon from http://cocoon.apache.org/
• Extract cocoon in the desired directory such as /opt/

# cd /opt/
# gunzip cocoon-2.1.8-src.tar.gz
# gnutar -xf cocoon-2.1.8-src.tar.gz

You may get the following error message if you use the regular tar to extract it: tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file. This is due to long pathnames in the tar. You will need to use gnutar to untar the package instead.

• Set your JAVA_HOME environment

# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/

• Run build.sh script

# cd cocoon-2.1.8
# ./build.sh

Create a cocoon user:

# groupadd cocoon
# useradd -g cocoon -d /opt/xml-qstat/ cocoon
# passwd cocoon
# chown -R cocoon:cocoon /opt/xml-qstat/

-- JesseSuen - 29 Mar 2006