[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installation question / comments

[Ben Shum]

Hi Bob,

Regarding Ubuntu and Evergreen.  The current latest stable Evergreen 2.6
series only has install targets for Ubuntu Precise 12.04.  The latest
Ubuntu 14.04 may not work completely out of the box due to various changes
in that operating system and differences in the versions for certain
dependencies.  Specifically, I know that Ubuntu 14.04 ships with Apache 2.4
(instead of Apache 2.2 previously in Ubuntu 12.04) and thus may have issues
if attempting to use older configuration files, etc.

We were actually working on adding Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty support as part of
our work for Evergreen 2.7 series today.  I just pushed some of that
initial work to the master git repository earlier this afternoon, so it'll
soon make its way to an actual release in the fall (if all goes according
to plan).

Another key note, you mention the "Desktop" version of Ubuntu being
installed.  Evergreen is officially only tested by developers and system
admins with the 64-bit "Server" edition of Ubuntu LTS.  That may factor
into additional dependency differences or installation issues.

For my own organization, we're running the latest Evergreen with Ubuntu
12.04 server without too many major issues at this time.

-- Ben




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>
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>
> cool-cat.org <http://info.cool-cat.org>
>



-- 
Benjamin Shum
Evergreen Systems Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
24 Wooster Ave.
Waterbury, CT 06708
203-577-4070, ext. 113
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