Using Ubuntu 12.04

arnabnaha wrote on Friday, April 27, 2012:

Hi…
I am going to ask a very noob question…I am new to Ubuntu 12.04 and practically know nothing of ubuntu. I was on windows (havent left it completely but trying to use ubuntu a bit). Now in windows I used the development version of OPENEMR. It was easy because I had the XAMPP package and just used to download the ZIP package from the recent dev tip in github and put it in the htdocs folder.
In ubuntu I tried doing that using the nautilus command by putting the tar.gz files from the github into the www folder. But it doesnt work. Can anybody (Ubuntu experts) please help me by giving a step by step approach to do this flawlessly and easily as i used to do in windows. I will update the wiki with this step by step instruction to help fellow windows users trying to switch to Ubuntu.

Thanks in advance
Dr. Arnab Naha

tmccormi wrote on Friday, April 27, 2012:

The easy thing to do is install the Released version for Ubuntu, make sure it works and the replace the www document root content with the development tar (or zip) just like you used to.
-Tony

arnabnaha wrote on Friday, April 27, 2012:

Thanks Tony…
Will do that today and update….Plz help me out if I face any difficulty or if it doesnt work…

bradymiller wrote on Friday, April 27, 2012:

Hi Arnab,

Welcome to the much better world of linux. Check out the really cool ubuntu developer package:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu-Debian_OpenEMR_Development_Package_Installation

-brady
OpenEMR

arnabnaha wrote on Saturday, April 28, 2012:

Thanks Brady…
Using Ubuntu…loving it till now…i installed the openemr without any problem. Now I want to import my windows openemr database into the ubuntu one. i found out the mysql database folder. It is in /var/lib/mysql. Now when I try to get into it, it says “the content of the folder cannot be displayed as I dont have the right permission”. I tried NAUTILUS command…but no use. Please help/ tell me a procedure to put the windows openemr database into the ubuntu openemr instance.

Thanks in advance
Dr. Arnab Naha

tmccormi wrote on Saturday, April 28, 2012:

use phpMyadmin on windows side to backup (dump) the database, copy the SQL file to your Ubuntu system and use phyMyadmin (if it’s not too big) to import it,  use comand line mysql tool if the it’s too big to import otherwise.  You can’t move the raw mysql DB files across Operating Systems reliably.
-Tony