[Evergreen-admin] Installing opensrf

[Sharp, Chris]

Hi Jeff,

You should make sure you've followed the instructions for installing prerequisites:

http://evergreen-ils.org/documentation/install/OpenSRF/README_2_1_2.html#_installing_prerequisites

It's also important which Linux user is performing which action.  Pay close attention to lines that begin with "As the root user" or "As the opensrf user".  Without knowing full details, I'd guess that you downloaded and extracted the tarball as root when it's better to create the opensrf user first, su to that user, make sure you're in /home/opensrf, then download the tarball as opensrf and go from there.

If you need real-time help, remember that the #evergreen IRC channel is available.  It's sparsely populated over the weekends typically, but if you ask questions and are patient, people will eventually respond.

Good luck!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Fox" <JFox at museumofflight.org>
> To: evergreen-admin at list.evergreen-ils.org
> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 7:13:40 PM
> Subject: [Evergreen-admin] Installing opensrf
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> 
> I am very new to Linux and to Evergreen (I took an Ubuntu class and
> ran it on my laptop several years ago). Loved it then but it is
> driving me crazy now. Server is a bit of a different animal and I
> have been looking forward to the opportunity to work with it and
> learn it.
> 
> 
> 
> For whatever reason, mgmt. delayed purchasing hardware for this
> project for months, but is now in a rush to get this project done. I
> am struggling thru the installation. I am currently trying to
> install opensrf and following the instructions from
> evergreen-ils.org. I am currently attempting to install
> prerequisites and I cannot run the “. /configure –prefix=/opensrf
> –sysconfdir=/opensrf/conf” command successfully.
> 
> 
> 
> I ran “ chmod +x configure” and tried the “./ configure…” again. That
> got me past the first error but I got a new error “apxs not found”.
> I ran “ aptitude install apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev”
> to get past that error and ran the “ ./configure…” command once
> again. I got another error “opensrf requires ncurses development
> headers”.
> 
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> 
> Where can I find “ncurses” downloads (and instructions!!!!)? Is there
> a missed step or possible mis-configuration on my part causing all
> these errors?
> 
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> Jeffrey Fox | IT Application & DB Specialist
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