Install Perforce on Ubunto

Configure Perforce

• Download the Perforce daemon file 'p4d' and client 'p4' files directly into /usr/local/bin. These files are for Linux installs using the 2.6 kernel version.

cd /usr/local/bin

wget http://www.perforce.com/downloads/perforce/r10.2/bin.linux26x86/p4d

wget http://www.perforce.com/downloads/perforce/r10.2/bin.linux26x86/p4

 

• Make the 'p4d' and 'p4' files executable.

chmod +x p4d p4

 

• Create a directory to hold Perforce files.

 

sudo mkdir /perforce

sudo chown perforce /perforce

sudo mkdir /perforce/log

sudo chown perforce /perforce/log

• Add the following lines to the end of /etc/profile. These settings will be used by local client programs run on the Linux server – not by the Perforce server.

# Perforce Settings

export P4JOURNAL=/perforce/log/journal

export P4LOG=/perforce/log/p4err

export P4ROOT=/perforce

export P4PORT=localhost:1666

export P4USER=perforce

• Load the Perforce settings.

 source /etc/profile

 

Setup Perforce As Bootup Service

• Change to the initialization control directory.

cd /etc/init.d

• Create the Perforce control script using 'sudo vi perforce'.

#!/bin/sh -e

 

export P4JOURNAL=/perforce/log/journal

export P4LOG=/perforce/log/p4err

export P4ROOT=/perforce

export P4PORT=localhost:1666

 

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"

 

p4user=perforce

p4start="p4d -d -r $P4ROOT -J $P4JOURNAL -L $P4LOG -p $P4PORT"

p4stop="p4 -Hlocalhost -p$P4PORT -u$p4user admin stop"

 

case "$1" in

start)

echo "STARTING PERFORCE SERVER...."

$p4start;

;;

stop)

echo "STOPING PERFORCE SERVER...."

$p4stop;

;;

restart)

echo "STOPING PERFORCE SERVER....."

$p4stop

echo "STARTING PERFORCE SERVER...."

$p4start

;;

*)

echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/perforce (start|stop|restart)"

exit 1

;;

esac

exit 0