Install Client Tools

Installation of Clients Tools ..

There are two methods for installing the Business Analytics (BA) design tools. You can use either of these methods:

  • Pentaho Business Analytics Evaluation Wizard - Windows Desktop.

  • Install each separate tool manually - Linux / Windows Desktop.

The Pentaho Business Analytics Installation Wizard is the easiest way to install design tools, utilities, or plugins on the server or client workstations. The manual method allows you to manually copy design tool installation files to any directory on the server or client workstations. The deployment pattern will depend on the DevOps requirements.

Pentaho Pro Suite

The following steps install the client plugins into a Linux Desktop - for Windows

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) provides the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities that facilitates the process of capturing, cleansing, and storing data using a uniform and consistent format that is accessible and relevant to end users and IoT technologies.

Unpack Client Package

The jar command is a general-purpose archiving and compression tool, based on ZIP and the ZLIB compression format.

x - Extract files from a JAR archive

f - Sets the file specified by the jarfile operand to be the name of the JAR file that is created

Pentaho Client Directories

  1. Create ~/Pentaho/design-tools directory.

cd
mkdir -p ~/Pentaho/design-tools

  1. Check for client plugins.

cd
cd ~/Downloads/'Client Tools'/'PDI (Spoon)'
ls

  1. Unjar pdi-ee-client-10.2.0.0-222.zip.

cd
cd ~/Pentaho/design-tools
jar -vxf ~/Downloads/'Client Tools'/'PDI (Spoon)'/pdi-ee-client-10.2.0.0-222.zip

  1. Change the permission for all .sh files.

All .sh files will need executable permission.

cd
cd ~/Pentaho/design-tools
find . -iname "*.sh" -exec bash -c 'chmod +x "$0"' {} \;

  1. Check that it matches the following directory structure:

~/Pentaho

design-tools

data-integration

jdbc-distribution

license-installer

PDI plugins are installed in the plugins folder.

Data Integration UI

This section is for reference.

The required packages are now installed v10.1+

Just start PDI to check UI and licenses.

Ubuntu 22.04 the Repository is:

• missing libwebgtk: webkit browser extensions.

• and fails to load canberra-gtk-module

  1. Add package repository.

sudo apt-get install -qq software-properties-common

  1. Add repository entry.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [trusted=yes] http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe'

  1. Update repositories.

sudo apt-get update

  1. Install package.

sudo apt-get install -qq libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module

  1. Start PDI.

cd
cd ~/Pentaho/design-tools/data-integration
./spoon.sh
Spoon UI
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