Installing Openbravo on Ubuntu Trusty

Question

Since I'm asked by my boss to integrate an Openbravo platform and develop several modules on it, I need a reliable development environment, and I'm currently only running Ubuntu 14.04.

Openbravo is available on Launchpad, but is not supported after Precise Pangolin. I still tried to install it from this way, changing the trusty value from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openbravo-isv-ppa-trusty.list to hardy after apt-get update yelled at me for a 404.

apt-get update now works, but apt-get install openbravo-3 still tells me now that the dependencies postgresql-9.1 is not installable, and tomcat6-common will simply not be installed.

I can still install postgresql-9.1 normally, but tomcat6 looks like it is not supported anymore on trusty , thus preventing me from installing it normally, even from the tarball. Maybe i am doing something wrong after all.

tl;dr : How can I install Openbravo3 on Ubuntu 14.04 ?

Answer 1

Okay so I tried to install it on a VM in a move of despair.

The problem came from the eclipse package which requires libtomcat7-java and pretty much everything related to tomcat7 . By removing libtomcat7-java , I went able to install tomcat6 , but I had to remove ̀ eclipse`.

As you may have guessed, the same problem can go on any distro, not just Ubuntu Trusty.

I guess I will have to install a previous version of eclipse to properly work with it, or simply download and install the archive from their site.