[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installation question / comments

[Ruth Frasur]

I have nothing of value to add to this discussion other than my
appreciation to all of you for working so hard to continue developing
Evergreen as a robust, functional and stable ILS solution.


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org>
wrote:

> On 07/10/2014 03:57 PM, Bob Neeper wrote:
> [Snipped for brevity.]
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't know what "Blake's guides" are. I recommend following the steps
> in the README inside the source archive exactly. The README instructions
> assume that you have extracted the source archive and have cd'd into the
> resulting directory in order to read the README.
>
> >
> > 2) Any idea why Ubuntu 12.04 gave so many problems ?
>
> Several possiblities:
>
> 1. You installed the desktop edition.
> 2. Your installation was bad to begin with, i.e. through no fault of
> your own some things were not installed properly.
> 3. Your VM image could have had some issue that you were not aware of.
>
> >
> > 3) Did the 'precise' substitution work ?
>
> No. It would likely not work.
>
> > Will (or should) the install file have 'trusty' added ?
>
> As previously mentioned, basic support for trusty was added today. It
> should be available when 2.7.0 is released. It will likely not be
> backported to 2.6, meaning 2.6 will not get installation support for
> trusty.
>
> >
> > 4) Why is a file looking for the apache version when, I think, apache is
> > really installed with evergreen ?
>
> Apache is required for OpenSRF.
>
> >     Or did the precise substitution cause this ?
>
> Most likely Apache failed to install for a number of reasons, not
> limited to the use of the precise target on a trusty system.
>
> You mentioned having problems installing in general on 12.04.
>
>
> >
> > 5) Any suggestions?
>
> Keep trying and pop into the #evergreen channel on irc.freenode.net to
> ask questions while trying the installation. We're very helpful in there.
>
> Once you do get Evergreen working, you'll find you have learned more
> about Linux than you ever thought you needed or wanted to know.
>
> >
> > Thanks for your support
> >
>
>
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> Jason Stephenson
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> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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> Email: jstephenson at mvlc.org
>



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