Install Optional Libraries

Client libraries

IMPORTANT: Bold BI Enterprise Edition uses client libraries such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and MongoDB to connect with their respective SQL database variants. You need to read and accept the client library license to install the client libraries.

1. Go to client library location.

/var/www/boldbi-embedded/clientlibrary/

2. Here, you can see the client library consent document consent-to-deploy-client-libraries.txt. Read the client libraries LICENSE details and execute the following command to install client libraries.

  $sudo bash install-optional.libs.sh install-optional-libs npgsql,mongodb,influxdb,snowflake,mysql,oracle

NOTE: If you face any issues in designer, please execute the following command.

    sudo chown -R <current user name> /var/www/boldbi-embedded/boldbi/bi/dataservice

PhantomJS

IMPORTANT: PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. This is free software or open-source, and it may contain MIT, BSD, LGPL, GPL, or other similar licenses that contain third-party code. This executable file is necessary to achieve the image and PDF export functionalities in the dashboard and widgets. Without this file, the image and PDF export options in the dashboard and widgets will no longer be available.

1. Go to client library location.

/var/www/boldbi-embedded/clientlibrary/

2. Create a directory bi/dataservice inside the directory /var/www/boldbi-embedded/boldbi/app_data/ by executing the following command.

  $sudo mkdir -p /var/www/boldbi-embedded/boldbi/app_data/bi/dataservice

3. Here, you can see the PhantomJS library consent document consent-to-deploy-phantomjs-webkit.txt. Read the PhantomJS LICENSE details and execute the following command to install PhantomJS.

  $sudo bash install-optional.libs.sh install-optional-libs phantomjs

NOTE: PhantomJS needs some dependencies. If your distribution does not contain the dependencies, please install it. https://phantomjs.org/download.html

Next step

• Application Startup