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Introduction Kettle is Pentaho’s ETL tool, which is also called Pentaho Data Integration (PDI). Installing Kettle is extremely simple. Install Java Follow the JDK installation instructions that are listed in the following post: Install Java JDK 6.0 update 31 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Download To download the Kettle either run the following command, or follow …

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Introduction The instructions below assume that you’ve followed my prior blog posts on how to install Pentaho on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS x64. Download To download the Pentaho Metadata Editor (PME) either run the following command, or follow the 3 bulleted steps below. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentaho/Pentaho%20Metadata/4.5.0-stable/pme-ce-4.5.0-stable.tar.gz Or follow the steps below if you don’t want to …

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Introduction Pentaho Design Studio (PDS) is a BI plugin for Eclipse. I’m going to download the complete package as Pentaho was nice enough to integrate the plugin with Eclipse for us. Download To download the Pentaho Design Studio (PDS) either run the following command, or follow the bulleted steps below. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentaho/Design%20Studio/4.0.0-stable/pds-ce-linux-64-4.0.0-stable.tar.gz Or follow the …

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Overview: What is Pentaho? Pentaho is an open source Business Intelligence (BI) Suite that comes in with either commercial support (http://www.pentaho.com/) and or community support (http://community.pentaho.com/). This post provides instructions for the Pentaho community edition suite. Create a pentaho user and group Open a terminal and run the following commands: sudo addgroup pentaho sudo adduser …

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What is Pentaho Pentaho is an open source Business Intelligence (BI) Suite that comes in with either commercial support (http://www.pentaho.com/) and or community support (http://community.pentaho.com/). This post provides instructions for the Pentaho community edition suite. Install Pentaho BI Server 4.5 on Windows 7 x64 Install Java Your steps may vary slightly as I had an …

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