[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installing OpenSRF on RHEL5

[Thomas Berezansky]

I highly recommend not using RHEL for Evergreen, due to their general  
policy of using older "stable, fully tested internally" versions of  
packages. Evergreen tends to use a lot of newer features.

If you want a redhat style distro, go with the latest Fedora. It is  
much better tested.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Paul Hoffman <paul at flo.org>:

> I'm trying to install OpenSRF 2.0.0 on RHEL5 folowing the instructions
> at http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opensrf:2.0:install
> and have gotten as far as step 5, at which point reality (on my server)
> begins to diverge from the instructions.
>
> I had to make a few changes in src/extras/Makefile.install because  
> of problems
> installing some Perl modules (excruciating details available upon  
> request) and
> because ftp.gnu.org was being very, very slow today:
>
> # diff -u src/extras/Makefile.install*
> --- src/extras/Makefile.install 2011-08-10 16:51:15.000000000 -0400
> +++ src/extras/Makefile.install.paul at flo.org    2011-08-10  
> 16:51:17.000000000 -0400
> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@
>  AUTOCONF_PKG=autoconf-2.65
>  LIBTOOL_HOST=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool
>  LIBTOOL_PKG=libtool-2.2.6b
> -AUTOMAKE_HOST=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake
> +#AUTOMAKE_HOST=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake
> +AUTOMAKE_HOST=ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/automake
>  AUTOMAKE_PKG=automake-1.11
>
>  # libmemcached is only packaged on newer distros
> @@ -145,11 +146,6 @@
>         perl-Cache-Memcached \
>         perl-Class-DBI-AbstractSearch \
>         perl-Class-DBI-SQLite \
> -       perl-DateTime \
> -       perl-DateTime-Format-ISO8601 \
> -       perl-DateTime-Format-Mail \
> -       perl-DateTime-Set \
> -       perl-DateTime-TimeZone \
>         perl-DBI \
>         perl-Email-Send \
>         perl-Error \
> @@ -206,10 +202,6 @@
>         perl-Class-DBI \
>         perl-Class-DBI-AbstractSearch \
>         perl-Class-DBI-SQLite \
> -       perl-DateTime-Format-Builder \
> -       perl-DateTime-Format-ISO8601 \
> -       perl-DateTime-Format-Mail \
> -       perl-DateTime-Set \
>         perl-devel \
>         perl-Error \
>         perl-File-Find-Rule \
>
> (The commented-out Perl modules I installed manually.)
>
> When I ran make -f src/extras/Makefile.install rhel all seemed to go  
> well, but
> when I began step 5 (/etc/init.d/ejabberd stop) I discovered that ejabberd
> hasn't been fully installed -- there's no ejabberd user, /etc/init.d/ejabberd
> doesn't exist, etc.
>
> So I followed the instructions in the ejabberd installation guide
> (ejabberd-2.1.2/doc/guide.html or some such) -- creating the ejabberd system
> user, copying bin/ejabberd.init to /etc/init.d/ejabberd, etc.  But ejabberd
> won't start:
>
>     # /etc/init.d/ejabberd start
>     Starting ejabberd...
>     Kernel pid terminated (application_controller)  
> ({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}})
>     Kernel pid terminated (application_controller)  
> ({application_start_failure,kernel,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}})
>
>     Session terminated, killing shell... ...killed.
>
> (I hit Ctrl-C to stop it after the second error message.)
>
> Has anyone successfully installed OpenSRF on RHEL5 or have any idea why
> ejabberd wouldn't have been fully installed?  I'm tempted to install ejabberd
> using yum (from EPEL), but I'm afraid it'll seem to work only to cause me big
> headaches later on.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul.
>
> --
> Paul Hoffman <paul at flo.org>
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