Installing BI Publisher on Linux

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Installing BI Publisher

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BI Publisher, formerly XML Publisher) is an enterprise reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all types of highly formatted documents. In Application Express 3.0 and later, you can use BI Publisher as your print server to deliver PDF reports within Application Express. In order to utilize the capabilities of BI Publisher, it needs to be installed and configured within Application Express. Perform the following steps to install BI Publisher:

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From your browser window, enter the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/publishing/index.html

Accept the license and download the file corresponding to the environment you want to install.

 

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Unzip the file and depending on what environment you are in, start the installer. In this case, you execute the following command on linux.

./runInstaller

 

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When the Welcome window appears, click Next.

 

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Enter BIPHome1 for Name and /u01/app/oracle/product/bipub for Path and click Next.

 

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Accept the default Installation Type of Basic and click Next.

 

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Enter welcome1 for oc4jadmin Password and Confirm Password and click Next.

 

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At the Summary window click Install.

 

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The progress window appears.

 

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The configuration assistant will run.

 

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The installation completed successfully. Click Exit.

 

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Click Yes to confirm.

Note that after the installation is complete, a window is displayed where BI Publisher OC4J is running. Do not close this window. BI Publisher OC4J must be running to be able to successfully generate a PDF report in Application Express.

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