How to install MarkLogic 8 on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

What are the steps to installing MarkLogic 8 on Ubuntu 14.04?

Answer 1

According to Alex Bleasdale / David Ennis, download the CentOS version; then:

Ubuntu and other Debian distributions use DEB packages, while CentOS or RedHat use RPM packages. To convert RPM to DEB in a somewhat reliable way, you can use the "alien" command. You install and use the alien as follows:

sudo apt-get install alien sudo alien --to-deb --verbose [your downloaded version] 

To install the local DEB package, you can use dpkg with the -i option.

 sudo dpkg -i [your downloaded version new repacked as .deb] 

At this point, you should install MarkLogic. You can start and stop MarkLogic using the init script, it lacks the "status" option:

 sudo /etc/init.d/MarkLogic start 

Answer 2

Download the centos / redhat RPM version from the official marklogic website. You need to install a "foreign" to convert RPM to DEB and install the created DEB.

sudo apt-get install alien

sudo alien - to-deb --verbose / home // Downloads / MarkLogic-RHEL7-8.0-5.4.x86_64.rpm

Install deb:

sudo dpkg -i marklogic_8.0-6.4_amd64.deb

I tested this on Ubuntu 16.04 (64 bit)