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Installing Pentaho Data Integration in Ubuntu 14

Background This blog post will record my efforts to install Pentaho Data Integration in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (14.04). I worked mostly remote, using vnc desktop, so this should be installed too. Because OpenJDK is not quite compatible with Pentaho Kettle (see this forum post ), we need to install Oracle Java 7 as a prerequisite, and we also need to ensure SWT browser dependencies & configuration are installed as well. Oracle Java 7 installation Referring to http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html, the steps is as follows : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer The author said that the installer is alpha software, but I like it better than manually installing from oracle website. From governance point of view, linux software should be installed in native packagers such as using dpkg or rpm, so this is one minus point that the oracle's java license prevented the crea