Ubuntu

My Ubuntu experience comes nowadays to a point where I think I can do a quick review on what happen so far. As explained in my first post about this topic, the installation done without problems. After everything was fine for me I went forward to get some more or less professional applications installed.

The first try was the eclipse development platform. After enabling the universal repository, I installed a new JAVA version (something 1.6.x) and the installation of eclipse was not a problem any more. Not that I'm currently using eclipse, it was nice to see that it work.

The second application was the client suite from SAP, the JAVA SAP GUI and the JAVA SAP DownloadManager. Both applications need an older JAVA version then the installed one so I took a 1.4.2 JAVA installation from a fedora core installation and put it into /opt/sap/j2re1.4.2. Now I installed the GUI into /opt/sap/gui and the DownloadManager into /opt/sap/dl_manager. To start the SAP logon I used the following script:

#! /bin/sh
#
# Start the JAVA SAP GUI on my unix workstation
#

### Set environmnent ###
PLATIN_PATH=/opt/sap/gui/SAPGUI6.40rev2/bin
PLATIN_JAVA=/opt/sap/j2re1.4.2/bin/java
PLATIN_JAVA_VER=1.4.2

export PLATIN_JAVA PLATIN_JAVA_VER

### Start gui logon using platin.ini under ${HOME}/.sap
${PLATIN_PATH}/guilogon -i ${HOME}/.SAPGUI/platin.ini

The DownloadManager start without special scripts, the binary directory already include a script which should run on nearly every unix platform.