Installing Thingworx Analytics Builder part 3 of 3

[#1]

In this video we cover the installation of the UploadThing module.

This video applies to ThingWorx Analytics 52.2 till 8.0. This is no longer applicable with ThingWorx Analytics 8.1

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Updated Link for access to this video:  Installing Thingworx Analytics Builder: Part 3 of 3

 

[Do1]

I am trying to install the UploadThing on Ubuntu Server 14.04.5 LTS

UploadThing_Install-52-2.zip

This is the errors I get:

duan@ubuntu:/tmp$ sudo sh ./install.sh

-en

Checking java version...

-e OK

Where do you want to install 'UploadThing' [/opt]?

./install.sh: 1: ./install.sh: Bad substitution

./install.sh: 142: [: ==: unexpected operator

sudo: chkconfig: command not found

/etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 8: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory

Starting UploadThing: /etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 19: runuser: command not found

touch: cannot touch ‘/var/lock/subsys/UploadThing’: No such file or directory

/etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 23: success: command not found

The script seems to be targeted specifically at Centos and seems incompatible with Ubuntu.

I would appreciate any help.

[cmorfin]

Hi Duan

Can you try using the script from https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS246768 ?

Thanks

Kind regards

Christophe

[Do1]

Thanks for the link Christophe,

This is the content of the updated install.sh:

#!/bin/sh

version=1.0

uploadThingDir=/opt/UploadThing-${version}

if [ ! -f ${uploadThingDir}/bin/UploadThing ]

then

    uploaddir=

    while [ -z $uploaddir ]

    do

        read -p "Where is the 'UploadThing' installed [/opt]? " uploaddir

        if [ -z $uploaddir ]

        then

            uploaddir="/opt"

        fi

        uploadThingDir=${uploaddir}/UploadThing-${version}

        if [ ! -f ${uploadThingDir}/bin/UploadThing ]

        then

            echo -e "\n****  This is not where 'UploadThing' is installed, try again\n"

            uploaddir=

        fi

    done

fi

cat UploadThing.ori | sed -e "s|::uploaddir::|${uploadThingDir}|g" > UploadThing

cp UploadThing /etc/init.d

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/UploadThing

chkconfig UploadThing on

service UploadThing start

Unfortunately it seems it is not compatible with Ubuntu 14.04.5

duan@ubuntu:/tmp$ sudo sh ./install.sh

./install.sh: 28: ./install.sh: chkconfig: not found

/etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 8: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory

Starting UploadThing: touch: cannot touch ‘/var/lock/subsys/UploadThing’: No such file or directory

/etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 17: runuser: command not found

/etc/init.d/UploadThing: line 21: success: command not found

As far as I can tell the problem lies with chkconfig:

My research shows:

The command chkconfig is no longer available in Ubuntu.The equivalent command to chkconfig is update-rc.d.This command nearly supports all the new versions of ubuntu.

The similar commands are

update-rc.d <service> defaults update-rc.d <service> start 20 3 4 5 update-rc.d -f <service>  remove

[cmorfin]

Hi Duan

Thank you for the feedback.

Then it would seem there is indeed an issue on Ubuntu newer releases.

I am checking on this and will update you when I get more information

Regards

Christophe

[cmorfin]

Hi Duan

I have reported this to R&D as the install script does not work indeed on latest release of Ubuntu.

You can find more details at https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS257078 .

For now one way around it is to Create, configure and Upload the dataset through REST API, then use ThingWorx Analytics Builder to manage the uploaded dataset.

Kind regards

Christophe