[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Open-ILS && SuSE-Linux (or FreeBSD)

Tue Jan 8 09:22:18 EST 2008

I think it would be accurate to say that Debian (and Debian-based 
distros such as Ubuntu) is the most popular base.  A likely reason for 
this is that the GPLS PINES program runs their Evergreen instance on 
Debian.

I would then say that Gentoo is the second most popular base.  I believe 
that was the distro used early on in Evergreen development (IE: 
Evergreen Alpha), and Dan Scott has done quite a bit of work towards it 
(the Virtual Machine he created is based on Gentoo IIRC).

I assume you saw this 
(http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=server_installation) page, and 
the link from it to this 
(http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=generic_installation_information) 
page? This should "get you started".  As you run into trouble, feel free 
to drop the list a line and/or stop in to the IRC channel 
(#OpenILS-Evergreen on FreeNode).

Hope this helps!
--Don

*hemera

Bill Ott wrote:
> I spent some time working with it on FreeBSD last spring.  With Linux 
> compat, and I recall some Linux only library file issues, you can get it 
> compiled, but I always had problems of one form or another.
> I've also run it on a couple different Linux distro's, but only had it 
> run flawless under Debian.  I've never been able to put my finger on 
> why, but for what it's worth, I've personally had the best success with 
> Debian.
> 
> 
> Matthias Apitz said the following on 01/08/2008 08:25 AM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've stumbled over Open-ILS and I want to give it a try.
>> The Wiki- and web pages only speak about Debian and Ubuntu
>> Linux distributions, is there a way to compile the server from the
>> source for SuSE Linux or for FreeBSD? Any experience about this
>> or do I have to setup a Debian/Ubuntu in a virtual machine
>> here?
>>
>> Thx in advance
>>
>>     matthias
>>   
> 