[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installation question / comments

[Rogan Hamby]

I can speak to Ubuntu.  I build tests on Debian regularly (in fact did it
twice today) in Virtual Box.  I usually grab the files via git though
rather than the wget method.






On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Bob Neeper <neeperro at oplin.org> wrote:

> Community Library Director / Evergreen Oversight Board member, Chauncey
> Montgomery, wanted a test Evergreen to work on.
> We (COOL) are on Evergreen hosted by Equinox.
>
> There is a long story about the last 2-3 weeks which led to Remington's
> doc post.
>
> Anyway
> I Installed Ubuntu 12.04 (Desktop) on our VMware ESXi server
> Using Blakes' guide for openSRF-2.1.0 and Evergreen-2.2.0 I got openSRF to
> provide the answer 4 even though had Failed To Fetch Errors.
> Ubuntu also really struggled with normal updates.
> Very hard time getting apache installed because of Failed To Fetch errors.
> Finally got past it and able to see the Evergreen web page via a local and
> remote browser.
> Could not get the database and schema created and in general had so many
> problems decided to do it all again.
> With the guides and my notes it should be smoother.
>
> New install of Ubuntu 12.04 still was not updating correctly.
> Tried different repositories without success.
> Skipped to the openSRF install but still getting Hash Sum Mismatch errors.
>
> Your thought may be our system, network etc. But I don't believe it is.
> Our ESXi server runs 11 virtual machines ( 5 openSUSE, freenas, Untangle,
> IPcop, Windows 7, Windows 2008 server, ZoneCd) and is still loafing.
> We have 5.0Mbps Fiber by Time Warner
>
> Decided to try Ubunto 14.04 desktop, which installed easily and did
> updates correctly.
> Also decided to install the latest openSRF & Evergreen using the official
> guides.
>
> Evergreen instructions seem to indicate you first  install openSRF and
> gave these exact instructions.
> 2. Installing prerequisites
> OpenSRF has a number of prerequisite packages that must be installed
> before you can successfully configure, compile, and install OpenSRF.
> On Debian and Ubuntu, the easiest way to install these prerequisites is to
> use the Makefile.install prerequisite installer.
>
> Issue the following commands as the root user to install prerequisites
> using the Makefile.install prerequisite installer, substituting your
> operating system identifier for <osname> below:
>
> apt-get install make
> make -f src/extras/Makefile.install <osname>
>
> But I had to change the instructions to.
>
> sudo su
> wget http://open-ils.org/downloads/opensrf-2.3.0.tar.gz
> tar xzf opensrf-2.3.0.tar.gz
> apt-get install aptitude
> apt-get install make
> cd opensrf-2.3.0
> make -f src/extras/Makefile.install trusty
>    That instruction failed of course as trusty is not in the install file.
>    Substituting precise looked as if it might have worked.
>
> Next step seemed to be.
> 4. Configuration and compilation instructions
>
> Use the configure command to configure OpenSRF, and the make command to
> build OpenSRF. The default installation prefix (PREFIX) for OpenSRF is
> /opensrf/.
>
> If you are building OpenSRF for Evergreen, issue the following commands as
> the user Linux account to configure and build OpenSRF:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf
> make
>
> I did this instead.
> [exit]
> [cd opensrf-2.3.0]
> [./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf]
> [make]
>
> It stopped with:
> ./configure: line 11572 /usr/bin/: Is a directory
> configure: error: "could not determine apache version number"
>
>
> My comments and questions. Bear in mind I'm not a linux expert.
>
> 1) Without Blake's guides I would not gotten past step 2 Installing
> Prerequisites.
>  Step by step commands are very helpful.
>
> 2) Any idea why Ubuntu 12.04 gave so many problems ?
>
> 3) Did the 'precise' substitution work ?
> Will (or should) the install file have 'trusty' added ?
>
> 4) Why is a file looking for the apache version when, I think, apache is
> really installed with evergreen ?
>     Or did the precise substitution cause this ?
>
> 5) Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your support
>
> --
> R. W. (Bob) Neeper
> Community Library <http://sunbury.cool-cat.org>
> 44 Burrer Dr.  Map <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.243961,+-82.863007>
> Sunbury, Oh 43074
> Tel:  (740)-965-3901
>
> cool-cat.org <http://info.cool-cat.org>
>



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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System

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