Install Floodlight controller on ubuntu 12.04 +

Prerequisites

Ubuntu 10.04 (Natty) or higher.
Install JDK and Ant by running “sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk ant python-dev eclipse”

Download and build

$ git clone git://github.com/floodlight/floodlight.git
$ cd floodlight
$ git checkout stable
$ ant;

Running Floodlight

Assuming java is in your path, directly run the floodlight.jar file produced by ant.

 $ java -jar target/floodlight.jar

Additionl stuff on how to set Java path

$sudo su
$vim .bashrc

Include following lines at the end of the file

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_25
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME
export PATH

Then go to /etc/environment
add this line:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_25

Then go to /etc/profile.d/java.sh (create it if necessary)

export JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_25
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_25

Then in a terminal run:

sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/java.sh
source /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Check the path

echo $JAVA_HOME

Prerequisites

Linux

• Ubuntu 10.04 (Natty) or higher.  (Has been run with Ubuntu 10.04 with Ant versions 1.8.1 or lower).
• Install JDK and Ant by running “sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk ant python-dev eclipse”

- See more at: http://www.projectfloodlight.org/getting-started/#sthash.vgwXGTWY.dpuf

Prerequisites

Linux

• Ubuntu 10.04 (Natty) or higher.  (Has been run with Ubuntu 10.04 with Ant versions 1.8.1 or lower).
• Install JDK and Ant by running “sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk ant python-dev eclipse”

- See more at: http://www.projectfloodlight.org/getting-started/#sthash.vgwXGTWY.dpuf