[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Installation question / comments

[Rogan Hamby]

The same issue has come up a few times.  Installing Evergreen is not a
trivial task, even on a test server.  It has become much easier over the
years as the developers have tried to streamline parts of the process and
simplify things but it's never really been anyone's dedicated job to make
it as easy as possible.  We could debate about why, and I would argue that
part of it is that more emphasis has been on making Evergreen robust,
feature rich and scalable than easy and it's a different kind of creature
from Wordpress, Untangle, etc...




On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Bob Neeper <neeperro at oplin.org> wrote:

> Thank you for all the answers/suggestions/etc.
>
> I really went astray by thinking the official docs were meant for anyone
> to be able to install Evergreen. Like Mediawiki, Wordpress, Untangle,
> Dspace, etc.
>
> As a suggestion, some verbiage might be added to the 2 docs such as:
>
> THESE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ARE ONLY INTENDED FOR ADVANCED LINUX
> ADMINISTRATORS AND DEVELOPERS. OTHERS SHOULD CONSIDER A COMMUNITY DEMO
> SERVER (show page link) OR A PRIVATE VENDOR (show page link).
>
> That would have stopped me cold so not to bother you all.
>
> Hi Rogan:
> That's good to know about Debian.
> As I understand it Virtual Box requires an underlying OS similar to the
> free VMware Workstation we previously ran on Windows. Switching to the free
> VMware ESXi gave us an immediate large speed improvement, being designed to
> only run virtual OS's. I also didn't want to build a special box when we
> have ESXi
>
> While not an expert, I am comfortable with linux having worked some with
> Unix, QNX & Linux at Toledo Scale. Not at developer level, but capable of
> following instructions for field edits, rebuilds, etc. I used wget per
> Blake's guide not knowing enough how to use git.
>
>
> Hi Ben:
> I used Ubuntu desktop version as it was shown in Blake's guide. I didn't
> want to add another variable by a different OS.
>
> BTW I used Blakes' guide as they were recommended by Joseph Lamb 5/19/14
> to Tom Collins who was looking for a guide. Tom said they were a little
> dated. But comparing them to the official docs for that particular build
> indicated they should work. At least Blake succeeded.
>
> I also just wanted something that worked for Chauncey. Thinking I should
> then know how to build (or update to) a later version after using the
> guides.
>
> Blake's guides and Evergreen's 2 docs do not indicate any h/w specs at
> all. Blake's guides had a photo of a Ubuntu desktop including LibreOffice
> Icons so I used desktop. I searched just now and found the statement "For
> Ubuntu, please use the latest 64-bit LTS (long term support) Server
> release" at the top of the download page.
> Possibly h/w & s/w specs might be included in "Installing The Evergreen
> Server" doc with a reference to it in the "Installing openSRF" doc.
>
> I will download the 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 server iso and try it.
>
> Hi Mike:
> Good info about Debian & Ubuntu. My personal favorite is openSUSE. We have
> 3 virtual Desktops acting as web servers. Also Chauncey and another staff
> member have used it on their own PC's for years. Originally selected it as
> we had Novell Netware and figured there would be good support for it as
> SUSE was a retail product.
>
> Hi Jason:
> Blake's guides are just the official docs for openSRF 2.1.0 & Evergreen
> 2.2.0 with his comments and specific instructions shown in green. He
> evidently read everything he could and built a system while referring to
> the official docs. Then he created commented docs so everyone else would
> have a much easier time.
>
> Yes, I did install a desktop version.
>
> Never have had a bad build on ESXi but did install the OS multiple times
> from scratch.
>
> The MD5 hash agreed with Ubunto's
>
> Good to know about trusty.
>
> I think Ben nailed a lot for me by mentioning 64 bit server.
>
> Been learning stuff all my life, forgotten a lot too.
>
>
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York County Library System

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