I recently had to install Flex Data Services (now called LiveCycle Data Services, but I installed FDS, so that's what I'm calling it here) again, and it reminded me of what a minor pain it was. So here it is, in case I need to install it a 3rd time.

I run my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn without monitors, so I obviously had to put in the headless server configuration in the flex-config.xml files like so:

<headless-server>true</headless-server>

Easy. But no... I forgot one more thing. In order for the Java VM to really run headless, I needed to change the jvm configuration file jvm.config:

java.args=-Xms32m -Xmx384m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Djava.awt.headless=true

The parts in italics I had to add in. It makes sense now that you think about it, but it doesnt say anywhere in the installation documents. Maybe you don't really need it. I don't know. All I know is I needed to do that for the next problem to appear.

The default installation of Ubuntu Feisty doesn't have a few libraries that the FDS sample  applications needed to run. Namely libXp6 and libXtst. Easy. Just aptitude them (or apt-get, or whatever).

Easy peasy Japanesey.