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Installing Oxygen XML Editor on a Linux / UNIX Server

Parent topic: Installation

Choosing an Installer

You can install Oxygen XML Editor on Linux using any of the following methods:

  • Install using the Linux installer.
  • Install using the Linux installer in unattended mode.

System Requirements

System requirements for a Linux install:

Operating system

Any Unix/Linux distribution with an available Java SE Runtime Environment version 1.6.0 or later from Oracle

CPU
  • Minimum - Intel Pentium III™/AMD Athlon™ class processor, 1 GHz
  • Recommended - Dual Core class processor
Memory
  • Minimum - 2 GB of RAM
  • Recommended - 4 GB of RAM
Storage
  • Minimum - 400 MB free disk space
  • Recommended - 1 GB free disk space
Java

Oxygen XML Editor requires Java. Oxygen XML Editor only supports official and stable Java Virtual Machines with the version number 1.6.0 or later (the recommended version is 1.6.0) from Oracle available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Oxygen XML Editor may work with JVM implementations from other vendors, but there is no guarantee that other implementations will work with future Oxygen XML Editor updates and releases. Oxygen XML Editor does not work with the GNU libgcj Java Virtual Machine.

Oxygen XML Editor uses the following rules to determine which installed version of Java to use:

  1. If you used the Linux installer, which installs a version of Java as part of the Oxygen XML Editor installation, the version in the jre subdirectory of the installation directory is used.
  2. Otherwise, if the Linux environment variable JAVA_HOME is set, Oxygen XML Editor uses the Java version pointed to by this variable.
  3. Otherwise the version of Java pointed to by your PATH environment variable is used.

You can also change the version of the Java Virtual Machine that runs Oxygen XML Editor by editing the script file, oxygen.sh. Go to the Java command at the end of the script file and specify the full path to the Java executable of the desired JVM version. For example: 

/usr/bin/jre1.6.0_45/bin/java -Xmx256m ...

Linux Installation

Linux installation procedure.

To install Oxygen XML Editor on Linux, follow these steps:

  1. Download the Linux installer.
  2. Optionally, you can validate the integrity of the downloaded file by checking it against the MD5 sum published on the download page.
  3. Run the installer that you downloaded.
    For example, open a shell, cd to the installation directory, and at the prompt type sh ./oxygen-32bit.sh or sh ./oxygen-64bit.sh, depending on which installer you downloaded.
  4. Start Oxygen XML Editor using one of the following methods:
    • Use the oxygen shortcut created by the installer.
    • From a command line, type sh oxygen.sh. This file is located in the installation folder.
  5. To license your copy of Oxygen XML Editor go to Help ⇒ Register and enter your license key.

Unix / Linux Server Configuration

To install Oxygen XML Editor on a Unix / Linux server:

  1. Install Oxygen XML Editor on the server and make sure the oxygen.sh script is executable and the installation directory is in the PATH of the users that need to use the application.
  2. Make sure you allocate sufficient memory to Oxygen XML Editor by setting an appropriate value for the -Xmx parameter in the .sh startup script.
    The default value of the -Xmx parameter is 512 MB. To avoid performance issues with large documents, you may need to adjust it.
  3. Make sure the X server processes located on the workstations allow connections from the server host. For this, use the xhost command.
  4. Start telnet (or ssh) on the server host.
  5. Start an xterm process with the display parameter set on the current workstation. For example: xterm -display workstationip:0.0.
  6. Start Oxygen XML Editor by typing sh oxygen.sh from the command line. This file is located in the installation folder.

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