Installing codebeamer X on a Linux distribution

Pre-requisites

• Have JDK 8 installed.
• The assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper should not exist in /etc/java-8-openjdk/accessibility.properties (or commented).
• Make sure there are no running codebeamer X instances on the current machine.

Installation steps

1. Initiate the installation by starting the installation file.
2. After the decompressing is finished, set the installation folder.
3. Decide whether to read the license agreement or not.
4. Accept the license agreement.
5. Set ports for the software (leave them on the default value if possible).
6. Decide whether to download MySQL JDBC driver or not (recommended).
7. Decide whether to upgrade your existing installation or not (not recommended).
8. Decide whether to start setup wizard or not (not recommended).
9. Download a mysql-connector version from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ and place it in the installation folder's /tomcat/lib/ directory.

Start codebeamer X

1. Start the application with the startup.sh file from the installation folder's /tomcat/bin/ directory (add right to run the startup.sh and catalina.sh files).

Post-installation steps

1. Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080
2. Follow the instructions of the post-install process.
3. Accept the license agreement.
4. Decide whether to create a new instance or upgrade an existing one.
5. Decide whether to create a new account or use an existing one.
6. Provide the database's access (Database schema and Schema username should be unique, Schema password should contain a lower and upper case characters, numbers and special characters).
7. Click on the [Test connection] to test the connection with the database.
8. Click on [Next].
9. Setup the administrator account.
10. Decide whether to setup a mail server or not.
11. Finish the post-install process by clicking on [Start working with codebeamer X] button.
12. Wait for the process to finish.
13. codebeamer X instance can now be used on http://localhost:8080