XWiki

Setup development environment

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Objective:

The objective is to setup everything you need to start contributing code to XWiki.

Task:

  1. Install Virtual Box on your machine
  2. Download the Ubuntu+Eclipse VM archive (see documentation for more details)
  3. Extract it (if you don't have any software supporting 7zip format you can get it on http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)
  4. Create a new VM in VirtualBox and use the vdi file you exported as storage
  5. Start the VM
  6. Open a terminal (click Terminal icon on the left)
  7. Write your name
  8. Take a screenshot of the whole screen

If you can't make Virtual Box work for some reason there is also an .ova file that can be used with other softwares (like VMWare).

Expected Outcome:

The student must provide the screenshot indicated in the previous section.

Task tags

  • terminal
  • virtualbox
  • ubuntu

Students who completed this task

Akshat Jain-1, Josiah Somani, h3ll0w0rld, Pranav Yadlapati, PerriX, Manveer Tamber, Rui Yang, Stefan Vulpe, Margaret Morehead, Arun Sarma, Hitesh, Sathvik Hebbar, Matthew Pak, TitanMx, Abhinav Kumar Udupi, David Figueroa, Shriman Selvamani, Adi Jayakumar, Kheswari Gukhool, Sumanth Ratna, Yash Jani, Ellianto Sarono P, Elysia, Naman Sood, Prakhar, Akshit Dewan, Antony, Robert Vulpe, Enigmatrix, Harsh Khandeparkar, Altaf Ayub Ramjon, Amber Jain, Tancau Ioan, Daniel Livingston, Kartik Singhal, Yuv Boghani, Sneha Ranjit, Jacob Juric

Task type

  • code Code

Level

Beginner
close

2017