I've been using PDI (aka Kettle) for years now and as the Pentaho company does not release all bugfix release as package I build my own packages on a regular basis.
This is how it's done:
Step one - get the sourcecode
~/Source$ svn co http://source.pentaho.org/svnkettleroot/Kettle/branches/3.2.4 (You need to choose the version of the branch wisely. Don't take the one with the highest number - it's usually still in development and is likely to break.)
Step two - create the zip
cd 3.2.4/
ant zip You should get something like this as a result:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 minute 36 seconds (On a system with an old ant version I got errors about a condition. I had to remove this section from build.xml:
[condition property="revision" value="${svn-revision}" else="1"]
[length string="${svn-revision}" length="7" when="less"]
[/length][/condition]and change the exec above from:
outputproperty="svn-revision" to:
outputproperty="revision" )
Step three - unzip
Now we have a zip file lying around. We can deploy this baby now or better yet give it a test run on our build machine.
mkdir released
cd released/
unzip ../pdi-ce-3.2.4-r12038.zip Step four - run
That should be it. Try to run it:
sh ./spoon.sh Don't worry about a black splash screen. This is something about GTK changing some API stuff. You will have to set an environment variable for the time being: export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true Now... have fun keeping up with all the updates the fine people at Pentaho are creating.
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