DSpace 4.0 New Look : Awesome

Salam all, After years working with DSpace software, i have to admit that the new default DSpace 4.0 interface design by cineca is awesome. It's simpler and what is more obvious is the color used by them (blue and green) make the interface is very pleasant for the eyes. Here, take a look at the new DSpace snapshot: 1) DSpace Home

2) Edit Profile

3) Administration Tools

Great work guys :)

Installing DSpace 4.0 on Windows 7 : Common Problems

Salam all, Installing DSpace is quite easy. Installing DSpace on Windows should be easier. However, i'm struggling about 2 days trying to install postgresql database, then i execute command mvn package from a wrong directory and few other thing which i will highlight here may helps the 1st timer to find solutions with similar problems. Problems: a) Installing PosgreSQL database I download postgresql-9.3.3-1-windows-x64 from here. I tried to install but in the end of the installation i got warning like below: Problem running post-install step. Installation may not complete correctly. The database cluster initialisation failed.

-taken from here If you got this warning, you wouldn't be able to connect your local database. You will get error : Server not listening. So here is the solutions : great, working and straight to the point solution b) Installing DSpace There are two thing you need to pay more attention. i) dspace.install.dir Make sure u use forward slash like this : '/' eg: C:/dspace Refer step no.5 page 48 at DSpace Manual. ii) Build the installation package Refer step no.7 page 50 at DSpace Manual. This is wrong, suppose you need to run your command from cd [dspace-source]/ only. Here is the explanation. That's all for now, i hope with this post you will not struggling installing DSpace like me :)