Jitterbit Client on Kubuntu

May 14, 2008

At work we are using Jitterbit a lot for a number of uses. I'm going to save the discussion on what Jitterbit is as you can read that for yourself. So you have Ubuntu, Kubutu or some other Debian-based Linux distribution and you'd like to get the Jitterbit client working, right? Let's go!

Download the Jitterbit client
Make sure you have the tools we need to convert the RPM into a Debian package:
```
sudo apt-get install alien rpm debhelper fakeroot binutils
```

Uncompress the file:

tar -xvzf jitterbit-client-1.3.2.5-linux.tar.gz

Change into the newly created Jitterbit directory:
```
cd jitterbit-client-1.3.2.5-linux
```

Convert the RPM into a Debian package:

sudo alien jitterbit-client-1.3.2-5.i386.rpm

Now you should see your Jitterbit Debian package. It will be called something like jitterbit-client_1.3.2-6_i386.deb

Install the Debian package:

dpkg -i jitterbit-client_1.3.2-6_i386.deb

OK, we are almost done. First you better make sure you have Java installed. I'm guessing you have but if not you can figure out how to get that installed. All we have to do now is tell Jitterbit where the client directory is (by default it is /usr/jitterbit_client). Edit ~/.jitterbit_clientrc and add:
```
JITTERBIT_CLIENT_HOME=/usr/jitterbit_client
```
We're done. Now run Jitterbit and enjoy:
```
jitterbit_client
```

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