Saturday, January 3, 2015

Creating a Linux Launcher for Pentaho Spoon



Reference Article: http://edpflager.com/?p=2322

Main Steps:
1) Create a script which cd's into your pentaho install directory.

  •  cd /usr/local/bin/pentaho
  • ./spoon.sh


2) Move the script to your desktop folder and change permissions accordingly (chmod 755)
3) Right Click -> Properties -> change Icon (selecting the spoon.png icon from your pentaho install directory.
4) Drag the desktop script to the quick launch task bar to create a new application launcher.
5) Modify icon by following step 3 for the application launcher script.

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