Installing the Books for Geeks Example in Linux

  1. Follow the instructions in the previous two appendixes to install JDK, Ant, Tomcat, MySQL, and MM.MySQL for your appropriate operating system.

  2. Go to http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/jakarta-log4j-1.1.3.zip, open the archive using WinZip, and extract the archive to /tmp/log4j. Find the dist/lib subdirectory, and copy log4j.jar to /var/tomcat4/lib.

  3. Go to http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-turbine/alpha/3.0a4/, click tdk-3.0a4.zip, and open the archive extract to /tmp. Copy velocity-1.2-dev.jar and turbine-2.1.jar from the share/lib subdirectory to /var/tomcat4/lib. Be sure that you do not use the 3.0a5 release because it doesn't have the turbine-2.1.jar file in it.

  4. Unzip the CARTAPP zip file into ...

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