Download from http://openrdf.org/download.jsp and unpack openrdf-sesame-2.0-beta5-sdk.tar.gz.:
> mkdir sesame2
use Ark tool to unpack in this directory

Create the data directory, assuming /data-b holds the repository and that reed is the user.

> su
# cd /data-b
# mkdir sesame
# chown reed sesame
# exit
> cd cd /data-b/sesame
> mkdir .aduna
> cd
> ln -s /data-b/sesame/.aduna .aduna
> cd
~/sesame2/openrdf-sesame-2.0-beta5/bin~/sesame2/openrdf-sesame-2.0-beta5/bin
> chmod a+x start-console.sh
> ./start-console.sh

How to run the Sesame2 server
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> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_01
> cd /opt/netbeans-5.5/enterprise3/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin
> ./startup.sh

Open localhost:8080 in Firefox to see Tomcat page.
Click status
Clisk list applications

Open http://localhost:8080/openrdf-http-server-2.0-beta5 in firefox
Open http://localhost:8080/openrdf-http-webclient-2.0-beta5

> ./shutdown.sh

How to run the Sesame2 console
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> cd /home/reed/sesame2/openrdf-sesame-2.0-beta5/bin
> ./start-console.sh