Prepare Environment

Preflight tasks ..

Prepare Environment

This section will guide you through the preflight tasks:

  • create a 'installation user' with sudo privileges.

  • install supported version of OpenJDK 11

  • set PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME

  • install certified version of Postgres 15

  • create 'superadmin' user

  • install pgAdmin4

Pentaho Installation Account

Add an account that is assigned administrative privileges by performing the following steps. We'll be using this account to complete the deployment.

  1. Run update & upgrade (optional).

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
  1. Add new user to system.

sudo adduser pentaho
  1. Set password.

New password: password
Retype new password: password
passwd: password updated successfully
Follow the prompts to set the new user’s information. It is fine to accept the defaults to leave 
all this information blank:
  1. Add new user to sudo group.

 sudo usermod -aG sudo pentaho
  1. Test access.

su - pentaho
sudo ls -la /root

Last updated

Was this helpful?