Downloading Pentaho CE

I've started first by downloading the world of Pentaho CE. It's a lot of stuff, and it's probably not everything I need.

I pulled everything through the following link: Pentaho CE latest stable builds

This also looks like a good place to navigate the community, see what people are talking about, and maybe, hopefully, find help.

I downloaded this:

Component	File(s)
Kettle - Data Integrationt	pdi-ce-4.4.0-stable.tar.gz
BI Server	biserver-ce-4.8.0-stable.tar.gz biserver-manual-ce-4.8.0-stable.zip*
Pentaho Metadata	pme-ce-4.8.0-stable.tar.gz
Design Studio	pds-ce-linux-64-4.0.0-stable.tar.gz
Mondrian	mondrian-3.5.0.zip
Schema Workbench	psw-ce-3.5.0.tar.gz
Aggregation Designer	pad-ce-1.5.0-stable.tar.gz pentaho-aggdesigner-ui-1.5.0-stable-sources.zip
Report Designer	pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-extensions-3.9.1-GA.zip pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-demo-3.9.1-GA.zip pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-core-3.9.1-GA.zip
Reporting SDK	pre-classic-sdk-3.9.1-GA.tar.gz

For convenience: wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data%20Integration/4.4.0-stable/pdi-ce-4.4.0-stable.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data%20Integration/4.4.0-stable/pdi-ce-javadoc-4.4.0-stable.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.8.0-stable/biserver-ce-4.8.0-stable.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.8.0-stable/biserver-manual-ce-4.8.0-stable.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.8.0-stable/biserver-ce-4.8.0-stable-javadoc.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Pentaho%20Metadata/4.8.0-stable/pme-ce-4.8.0-stable.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Design%20Studio/4.0.0-stable/pds-ce-linux-64-4.0.0-stable.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/files/mondrian/mondrian-3.5.0/mondrian-3.5.0.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/files/schema%20workbench/3.5.0-stable/psw-ce-3.5.0.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/files/aggregation%20designer/1.5.0-stable/pentaho-aggdesigner-ui-1.5.0-stable-sources.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/files/aggregation%20designer/1.5.0-stable/pad-ce-1.5.0-stable.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/04.%20Report%20Designer/3.9.1-stable/prd-ce-3.9.1-GA.tar.gz wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/01.%20Classic%20Engine/3.9.1-stable/pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-extensions-3.9.1-GA.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/01.%20Classic%20Engine/3.9.1-stable/pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-demo-3.9.1-GA.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/01.%20Classic%20Engine/3.9.1-stable/pentaho-reporting-engine-classic-core-3.9.1-GA.zip wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/03.%20SDK/3.9.1-stable/pre-classic-sdk-3.9.1-GA.tar.gz

New projects

So, I've got two configuration project going on at the moment.

1. Set up cascaded replication of a Postgresql server using the built-in hot-standby functionality.
1. Also try and use Slony-I to then replicate on the database level from the hot-standbys to read-write mirrors for development and test
2. Set up Pentaho community edition on Ubuntu against an existing Postgresql RDMS where we've already done a lot of the ETL to an OLAP-style table structure, fact/dim, etc.

Should be fun.

Well, I thought I'd start recording my trials and tribulations with getting stuff to work. This may be useful for others, but it's mostly a place I can put things so I don't forget.

If you find anything here useful, excellent, glad I could help.

Tchau.