Introduction

The instructions below assume that you’ve followed my prior blog posts on how to install Pentaho on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS x64.

Download

To download the Pentaho Metadata Editor (PME) either run the following command, or follow the 3 bulleted steps below.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentaho/Pentaho%20Metadata/4.5.0-stable/pme-ce-4.5.0-stable.tar.gz

Or follow the steps below if you don’t want to use the wget command shown above.

• Download Pentaho Metadata Editor (PME) 4.5.0 from http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/Latest+Stable+Builds.
• Click 4.5.0-stable.
• Click pme-ce-4.5.0-stable.tar.gz to download PME.

Installation

Enter the following commands:

cd ~/Downloads

tar -xzf pme-ce-4.5.0-stable.tar.gz

mv metadata-editor ~/bin/pme-ce-4.5.0

cd ~/bin

ln -s pme-ce-4.5.0 metadata-editor

vi ~/.profile

Append the following to the end of your PATH:

:$HOME/bin/metadata-editor

For example, my PATH now looks like:
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin/design-studio:$HOME/bin/metadata-editor"

Save the file, then enter the following command:

source ~/.profile

cd ~/bin/metadata-editor

ln -s metadata-editor.sh pme

Start the Pentaho Metadata Editor with the following command:

pme

Note:
You may get an error message such as:

ERROR 24-05 21:45:04,618 – Pentaho Metadata Editor – Unable to load query : java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/akbar/.pentaho-meta/.query (No such file or directory)

You can safely ignore this error message for now per wgorman in this post:
http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?72313-Error-Messgae-Pentaho-Metadata-Editor-Unable-to-load-query

“Regarding the .query file not being found, you can safely ignore that message. The MQL Query Editor looks for that file for a saved state.” Will