In this guide we will show you how to create a Docker container for Odysseus. Such a container can help you to run and share Odysseus more easily. If you want to user our predefined Odysseus Server Docker Container, see Run with Docker.
Step-by-step guide
We assume that you have a Linux system up and running, e.g. Ubuntu. If you want to try it out without changing your system or if you don't have a Linux machine, we recommend VirtualBox.
Installing Docker
- Open a Terminal window.
- Type "docker"
- If Docker is already installed, a help page with common Docker options and commands will show up.
- If not, your Terminal will probably give you a hint how to install Docker. Under Ubuntu, it is "sudo apt-get install docker.io"
Preparing the Folder
Now we need a folder where we can put everything that we need in.
- Create a folder, e.g. in your "Documents"-folder.
- Move to that folder
- Create another folder "odysseus" in that folder
Creating the magic folder
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~$ ls Desktop Documents Downloads examples.desktop Music Pictures Public Templates Videos tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~$ cd Documents/ tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ ls tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ mkdir odysseusdocker tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ ls odysseusdocker tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ cd odysseusdocker/ tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents/odysseusdocker$ mkdir odysseus
- Now we need the version from Odysseus that we want to run. We can use the Odysseus Server Version as an example.
- Download Odysseus Server for Linux here (we use the 64-bit version): http://odysseus.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?id=76
- Unzip the content of your download to the odysseus-folder within out odysseusdocker folder
startup.sh