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

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
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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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
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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Posted by Tom Jackson on
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.