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An explanation of the symbols and conventions used throughout this wiki.

Variables

Variables are used to indicate part of a string that might vary depending on your implementation.

• $HOME — your home directory (e.g. /home/user)
• $PENTAHO or ${PENTAHO} — the directory location of your Pentaho BI Server installation

Command prompts

Commands to type are prefixed with a character to indicate how/where they should be run.

• $ — run this command from the *NIX shell as a normal user
• # — run this command from the *NIX shell as root
• > — run this from a database command line

Parameters

These are parameters to commands.

• parameters surrounded with angled brackets (< and >) are required
• parameters surrounded with square brackets ([ and ]) are optional