You can mostly script the installation of Vufind on Ubuntu. The following details the installation from a “clean” instance of Ubuntu Server.

The first step is to make sure you have the latest patches installed.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Next, install SSH and the JDK 6 on the server.

sudo apt-get -y install sun-java6-jdk

While you're installing Java, you'll be prompted to accept the user license.

Note: You can run the Jetty server with the JRE, but in order to ensure that your server 
can run with the "-server" to enable server heuristics, you need to install the JDK.

Vufind needs to run PHP, for the purposes here we'll use Apache2.

sudo apt-get -y install apache2
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

sudo apt-get -y install php5 php5-dev php-pear php5-ldap php5-mysql php5-xsl php5-pspell aspell aspell-en

There are a few steps if you need to install the OCI8 libraries. First, upgrade pear to the latest version1).

sudo pear upgrade pear

Now, you need to get the Oracle Instant Client (at a minimum you need Basic and SDK zip pages).

sudo mkdir -p /opt/oracle
cd /opt/oracle
# download/move the client libraries to /opt/oracle
sudo unzip basic.zip
sudo unzip sdk.zip
# make a symlink to make upgrading easier
sudo ln -s instantclient_11_1 instantclient

There are some symlinks that need to be made in the actual folders…

cd /opt/oracle/instantclient
sudo ln -s libclntsh.so.10.1 libclntsh.so
sudo ln -s libocci.so.10.1 libocci.so

Now add the Instant Client to the system dynamic library loader.

echo /opt/oracle/instantclient > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient

Now compile and install the OCI8 package with PECL

sudo pecl install oci8

Note, you will be prompted for the instantclient directory, so when you're prompted, just enter

/opt/oracle/instantclient

Now install the PHP extension and restart Apache

sudo echo extension=oci8 >> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server

Now for the fun part!

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vufind/vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz?big_mirror=0
tar zxvf vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz
sudo mv vufind-0.8.2 /usr/local/vufind
sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/local/vufind/web/interface/compile
sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/local/vufind/web/interface/cache 
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/vufind/vufind.sh

We need to add a couple of settings to Apache in order to make sure everything will run properly. In the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file, add the following:

Alias /vufind /usr/local/vufind/web 
 
<Directory /usr/local/vufind/web/>
     AllowOverride ALL
     Order allow,deny
     allow from all
</Directory>

Now, reload

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

There are a few environmental variables that need to be set. You can set these for the user running the service, or in /etc/profile if you're lazy.

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"
export VUFIND_HOME="/usr/local/vufind"

sudo /usr/local/vufind/install.sh

You can use this script to (mostly) install everything to get Vufind running on Ubuntu. Just save this script as ubuntu_setup.sh.

sudo sh ubuntu_setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
 
# Script for installing Vufind 0.8.2 on Ubuntu
# This does not include the OCI8 libraries
 
# Set some variables
VUFIND_URL="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vufind/vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz?big_mirror=0"
VUFIND_HOME="/usr/local/vufind"
 
# Update the system and install software
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install sun-java6-jdk apache2 php5 php5-dev php-pear php5-ldap php5-mysql php5-xsl php5-pspell aspell aspell-en mysql-server
 
# enable mod_rewrite
sudo a2enmod rewrite
 
# set up Apache for Vufind and reload configuration
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
 
# download Vufind
cd /tmp
wget $VUFIND_URL
tar zxvf vuvind-0.8.2.tar.gz
sudo mv vufind-0.8.2 $VUFIND_HOME
sudo chown www-data:www-data $VUFIND_HOME/web/interface/compile
sudo chown www-data:www-data $VUFIND_HOME/web/interface/cache
 
sudo $VUFIND_HOME/install