How to install sonar runner in unbuntu.

Create database and user:

CREATE DATABASE sonar CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
CREATE USER 'sonar' IDENTIFIED BY 'sonar';
GRANT ALL ON sonar.* TO 'sonar'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'sonar';
GRANT ALL ON sonar.* TO 'sonar'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'sonar';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Download and unzip Sonar distribution:

wget http://dist.sonar.codehaus.org/sonarqube-5.1.zip
unzip sonarqube-5.1.zip
mv sonarqube-5.1 /opt/sonar

Edit sonar.properties:

Open /opt/sonar/conf/sonar.properties with your favourite text editor, and modify it.

MySQL settings:

sonar.jdbc.username=sonar
sonar.jdbc.password=sonar
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true&useConfigs=maxPerformance

Web Server settings:

sonar.web.host=127.0.0.1

sonar.web.port=9000

Implement Sonar server as a service:

sudo cp bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh /etc/init.d/sonar
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/sonar

Insert two new lines: 

SONAR_HOME=/opt/sonar
PLATFORM=linux-x86-64

Modify the following lines:

WRAPPER_CMD="${SONAR_HOME}/bin/${PLATFORM}/wrapper"
WRAPPER_CONF="${SONAR_HOME}/conf/wrapper.conf"

PIDDIR="/var/run" 

Register as a Linux service:

sudo update-rc.d -f sonar remove
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/sonar
sudo update-rc.d sonar defaults

Create Desktop icons:

Install gnome-panel if missing:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel --no-install-recommends

Open Dialog for creating new item for starting SonarQube:

sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

Copy the item to the Desktop:

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/SonarQube\ Start.desktop /home/user/Desktop/

Open Dialog for creating new item for stopping SonarQube:

sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

Copy the item to the Desktop:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/SonarQube\ Stop.desktop /home/user/Desktop/

To start sonar server:

clicking on the SonarQube Start icon which was created before

To start sonar server:

clicking on the SonarQube Stop icon which was created before  

Lets enjoy...