GCube Portal Installation

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!!Work in progress wiki page!! (Jan 17th 2012)

gCube adopts Liferay Portal as enabling portal technology for its Ecosystem Gateway. The latest version available is gCube Portal-Bundle 2.0 (Jan 2012) built over Liferay Portal 6.0.6 (Bunyan)

Installing the gCube Portal

Starting from this 2.0 release, installing the gCube Portal is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. We've been working hard to make this process as easiest and quicker as possible.

Supported Operating Systems are Linux and MacOSX. With Java6 installed.

Download the gCube Portal Bundle

gCube Portal 2.0 is bundled with tomcat6 and the latest stable relase of gCube Core Distribution (gCore) and gCube ASL (Application Support Layer).

All you need to do is the following:

  • Download the latest version of the Portal-Bundle from here
  • Unzip Cube Portal bundle to a desired location on your machine
  • Set $CATALINA_HOME environment variable to tomcat's home directory (tomcat-6.0.29 in the bundle)