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Nicholas Orr wrote:
> I know enough unix to compile the odd application, but for example it
> mentions that you need to download and install the Sun Java JDK, and has
> a link to sun's site. On the website there are plenty of JAVA SDK's to
> download, but no JDK. I made the presumption that you need the J2SE
> SDK, and tried to download this, but there is no Mac OS X download there.

I have not tried to do anything with JIRA on any platform, and I haven't
tried any J2EE stuff on Mac OS X, either, so I can't help with your most
pressing questions.

But, I think I can clarify some of your confusion below. The Java SDK *is*
the JDK; I forget exactly when Sun changed the nomenclature, but
the difference is just semantics - are you want to call it the Java
Software Developer's Kit, or the Java Developer's Kit?

Also, you will not find any Java downloads (runtime or SDK or otherwise)
for Mac OS X on Sun's web site because Sun does not offer any; Apple
develops and distributes their own. If you're running Mac OS X 10.3 and
have kept it up to date, you have Apple's implementation of Java 2,
version 1.4.2_03. (At least that's what typing "java -version" in
Terminal tells me.)

Hope this helps a little bit. Sorry I can't help with your primary
concerns about JIRA; hopefully someone else on the list can do better
than I in that regard.

- Mike Wallinga

For those that are interested I've had some more success in getting
this working.

On 24/06/2004, at 8:58 AM, Nicholas Orr wrote:

> I know enough unix to compile the odd application, but for example it
> mentions that you need to download and install the Sun Java JDK, and
> has a link to sun's site. On the website there are plenty of JAVA
> SDK's to download, but no JDK. I made the presumption that you need
> the J2SE SDK, and tried to download this, but there is no Mac OS X
> download there.
>
> I did a google search and couldn't find any more info about installs
> on OS X, so I'm not sure where to go? Maybe the info is already
> installed if you have the developer tools installed.

It must already be installed (I'm not sure if it's part of the
developer tools suite or not though), as I figure out it requires a
file called "javac" which is on my machine in /usr/bin
>
> And I thought a command like "3. Run bin/startup.sh" would mean just
> that. Go into terminal in the right directory and type
> "bin/startup.sh", but I get file not found errors.

It turns out this was because of the executable bit not being set. I
eventually found a message on the jira documentation about how to fix
this. Basically you type "chmod +x bin/startup.sh" before doing
"bin/startup.sh". But you also need to set the executable bit for
another script called catalina.sh ""chmod +x bin/catalina.sh", which
the documentation didn't mention.

This gets it running.... if you have the JAVA_HOME environment variable
setup properly.

This is where I got lost. You can add this to your .profile file by
editing it and adding the line "export JAVA_HOME=/usr" to this file.
But I'm not sure if this works across reboots and if it would also work
if you used a startup item that worked even if you weren't logged in.
I don't know enough unix to know what else to look at here.

So I managed to test it on my laptop. I'll look into it further and
try to get it working on my server.

If anyone else is interested, let me know, and I'll keep them abreast
of the results.

Cheers,
Nick

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Nicholas Orr wrote:

> I did a google search and couldn't find any more info about installs on
> OS X, so I'm not sure where to go? Maybe the info is already
> installed if you have the developer tools installed.

I haven't used JIRA but am a Java developer.

You shouldn't need to install any JDK/SDK from SUN, the one supplied by
Apple should work (unless they are doing something funky). Sun doesn't
produce a JDK/SDK for MacOS X.

> And I thought a command like "3. Run bin/startup.sh" would mean just
> that. Go into terminal in the right directory and type
> "bin/startup.sh", but I get file not found errors.

If the application is installed in /Users/Jeff/SomeApp and there is a
"bin" directory under it that has a shell script (.sh file) you need to
run it called "startup.sh"

you should cd into /Users/Jeff/SomeApp and then type

bin/startup.sh

If that doesn't work, you may need to make the shell script executable by
cd'ing into the bin directory and then typing

chmod +x startup.sh

then go back to /User/Jeff/SomeApp and try again.

  Jeff

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Jeff Luszcz
polaropolar-orbit.com
http://www.polar-orbit.com

Hi there. I'm a developer at Atlassian, so perhaps I can help.

I'm sorry about the OS X documentation, we're definitely going to provide something more specific to OS X in the future. To start JIRA on OS X if you've downloaded the standalone distribution:

1) Open Terminal into the directory that was created when you unpacked the JIRA distribution. 2) export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/Home" 3) ./bin/startup.sh

This will start the JIRA server on port 8080, which you can then reach on your browser.

Alternatively, if you check our download page, we have a .dmg packaged specifically for Mac OS X - the whole app is packaged inside a regular Mac app bundle, and you just have to double-click to get it going.

If you have any problems or questions about JIRA, you can email jira-supportatlassian.com and we'll help out. You can reach me directly at charlesatlassian.com

Alternatively, if you're in San Francisco, we're exhibiting at WWDC right now (I'm writing this from the laptop station along the wall behind the exhibition). We're a pretty friendly bunch of guys, come around to the Atlassian booth and say hi.