Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS

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34: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 12/13/07 04:03 PM
You haven't desscribed which packages you tried to use, what version of OpenACS you installed on or how you tried to install them.

We fully admit there are problems. One problem of course, is that most of use who regularly use OpenACS have intuitive knowledge of how to install it, and don't see these issues.

I applaud your perseverance!

You might try http://oacsrocks.org which provides a preinstalled demo that you can use.

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35: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 34)
Posted by Vic May on 12/13/07 04:48 PM
Dave,

My goal was to install the latest everything --- Postgres 8.25, Apache 4.5, OpenACS 5.3.2. I have been able to do it using a mix of installation sources, unfortunetly I did not keep track of it. I will keep trying. It could also be that "latest everything" is not a good idea. Also, I should probalby read the documentation first to figure out how things work underneath. I have never used CVS before so I did not try CVS installation, don't know how stable/easy it is.

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36: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 34)
Posted by Vic May on 12/13/07 04:51 PM
BTW, I am subscribed to oacsrocks but that does not help me much with figuring out my own installation but I do spend time browsing around just to see how things work.
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39: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 36)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/08/08 06:29 PM
After getting frustrated of being unable to compile AOLserver under Ubuntu due to glibc problems I stumbled upon the fact that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS has AOLserver packages (thanks to DaveB for his blog posting).

Based on this I wrote a new installation instruction for AOLserver which includes tdom, xotcl and tcllib (as they all are required now by OpenACS).

http://cognovis.de/developer/en/aolserver_ubuntu

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40: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 39)
Posted by Iuri Sampaio on 01/12/08 01:10 AM
Hi all,
I'm working with Robert Taylor on this field and i finished some scripts to easily install oacs in debian.

It's an adaptation of cognovis and old oacs scripts.
Plus tutorials published on oacs website by Vinod and some others good guys from oacs community.

It's just a few confirmation steps to get your oacs box ready to browse.(apt-get Y/N questions and postfix setup)

The troubles i faced: repos are constantly down, plus aplications such as tdom, tcllib,... version updates without publishing

Also, there are settings such as ip address and homedir, service user, in case you would like to change the defaults.

Please check it out at:
http://69.67.174.135:8000/file-storage/index?folder%5fid=2572

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41: Re: Ideas for easier installation of OpenACS (response to 40)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 01/12/08 05:46 PM
Please check it out at:
http://69.67.174.135:8000/file-storage/index?folder%5fid=2572

Ugggg! Who is ever going to believe that OACS developers know what they are doing, especially with regard to installation and configuration streamlining, if they post stuff on the web using IP address and an unprivileged port? The link above doesn't work, but the dnsname associated with it is hanyb174135.smarttadsl.com, so it will likely be a short lived address under any circumstances.

It's okay to post a log file or something similar to an IP, but not your solution to installation problems. Probably the biggest sources of frustration for new developers of any project are dead-links, half-done guides, just-get-it-installed guides and discovering the over-hype of the polished intro-documentation. (Fortunately, OACS doesn't suffer from the last of these.) But I-solved-a-big-problem promises to dead-links is pretty high up on the frustration index.

If you can't find a place to put this right now, why not send me a copy. I'll post it, and further updates, so others can find it.