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OpenACS/.LRN for Ubuntu

Packages of OpenACS and .LRN are now available for Ubuntu Linux . We hope to facilitate the adoption by novices and the infrastructure deployment by professional users, both running Debian GNU/Linux and its derivates. This is an on-going effort. Beware, our packaging activity explicitly targets Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron and Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala. Important dependencies are co-maintained with the Debian Tcl/Tk Maintainers .

See also OpenACS for Debian.

Getting started

Please, review the section on supported distributions first. Currently, the core packages (openacs, dotlrn) are managed in a community repository and are not delivered by the distributions supported. All required dependencies, however, are contained in these.

Release packages for Ubuntu 8.04/9.10

Modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to our community repository and update your package pool:

deb http://debian.adenu.ia.uned.es/apt {hardy|karmic} main
Then run:

apt-get update
(optional) Provide for a PostgreSQL environment: If you don't have a PostgreSQL installation at hand, provide one. You do not need to care about setting up a concrete data base. This is automatically done by the openacs and dotlrn post-install instructions. Note that the packaged OpenACS version (5.4.3, at the time of writing) has been reported to work with both PostgreSQL 8.2 (in Ubuntu 8.04) and PostgreSQL 8.4 (in Ubuntu 9.10).

apt-get install postgresql
If you run a remote PostgreSQL instance, remember to allow for access of the PostgreSQL Administrator (postgres) and the openacs/dotlrn user from the machine hosting your OpenACS/.LRN installation.
Install the core packages and follow the on-screen instructions:

# OpenACS
apt-get install openacs
... or ...

# .LRN
apt-get install dotlrn

To-dos

People

Active contributors

Héctor Romojaro
Stefan Sobernig
Avni M. Khatri
Carl R. Blesius

Packages status

Packages maintained by Debian Tcl/Tk Maintainers

Packages co-maintained by OCT & Debian Tcl/Tk Maintainers

xotcl
tdom

Community packages maintained by OCT

Prodding

Please, for getting in contact and reporting issues, consider ...

... posting to the OpenACS developer forum , or
... mailing to ubuntu_at_openacs.org

Known issues

There is a bug related to the install precedence of the Ubuntu Hardy versions of the aolserver4 and the aolserver4-core packages. Their installation fails, leaving these and directly dependent packages uninitialised. The user is presented the following error description:

libnsd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The fix is simple, just force a configuration of the remaining packages by executing:

dpkg --configure -a

References to this Page: en:debian, en:linux Categories: Subsystems Documentation (OpenACS.org)

Comments

libnsd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory by Héctor Romojaro on 01/22/09
Requesting more detailed installation instructions by Ed Zaron on 03/14/09
Really postgresql 8-2? by Michael Aram on 05/06/09