MicroStrategy is not yet supported or certified to be installed on Ubuntu Linux. But there is way to achieve it.
/etc/sysctl.conf
fs.file-max = 65535 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default = 1048576 net.core.rmem_max = 1048576 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 262144
….and installed a lot of supporting packages :
# apt-get install gcc make binutils lesstif2 libc6 libc6-dev rpm libmotif3 libaio libstdc++5 gawk alien libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 ksh gcc-3.3 g++-3.3 libstdc++5
…and tricked the installer into thinking it was a redhat environment :
echo "Red Hat Linux release 4" > /etc/redhat-release
But, if you want to install in a free linux version, you can try Fedora, CentOS or OpenSuse.
I recently published a book about MicroStrategy, it features the entire suite including the latest visual data discovery tolos, both on premise and on the Cloud:
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You can download a simple chapter here:
http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/9781782179757_Chapter-09.pdf?utm_source=packtpub&utm_medium=free&utm_campaign=pdf
In Appendix B, there is amentiopn to this blog.
best regards
Davide Moraschi