How does one install MarkLogic 8 on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

What are the steps to install MarkLogic 8 on Ubuntu 14.04?

Answer 1

According to Alex Bleasdale/David Ennis, download the CentOS version; then:

Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions use DEB packages and CentOS or RedHat use RPM packages. To convert an RPM to DEB in a somewhat reliable way, one can use the 'alien' command. You install and use alien as follows:

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien --to-deb --verbose  [your downloaded version]

In order to install a local DEB package, you can use dpkg with the -i option.

sudo dpkg -i [your downloaded version new repacked as .deb]

At this point, MarkLogic should be installed. You can start and stop MarkLogic using the init script, it lacks the option 'status':

sudo /etc/init.d/MarkLogic start