Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS5 install on Mac OS X

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6: Re: OpenACS5 install on Mac OS X (response to 1)
Posted by Walter McGinnis on 12/25/03 01:58 AM
Has anyone noticed any changes between the numerous Mac OS X install guides and what is needed to install on 10.3 (i.e. Panther)?  More or less steps needed?  Postfix a pain?  Easy as pie?
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7: Re: OpenACS5 install on Mac OS X (response to 6)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 12/25/03 12:03 PM
I am maintaining the OS X installation instructions for OpenACS as good as I can. If you look at the postgres section, you will see special instructions for Panther, namely, install 7.4 of postgres.

All in all, it is a 20 minute procedure, including download via DSL, if you follow the docs (see my posting somewhere on this site on how to install, as this is a "quick rundown" version of the more extensive documentation).

This said, I did not even try to get AOLserver 3.3 to run on OS X, so no experiences for that one.

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8: Re: OpenACS5 install on Mac OS X (response to 7)
Posted by Walter McGinnis on 12/25/03 10:36 PM
Although I tried searching and looking at your former posts, I couldn't find your "quick rundown" and https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-HEAD/postgres.html didn't seem to have reference to Postgresql 7.4 in it.  Could you post a link to clarify what you are referring to please?

IIRC, Don has at least tried to install and run Oracle 9i for Mac OS X for OpenACS 5.  Hopefully he has some notes that we can incorporate into the install guide.

The big thing that seems to be lacking in all the various current install guides for Mac OS X is a complete production setup for OpenACS.  I appreciate that you are trying to keep things close to Linux, if I do an install, I'll try to make notes based on canonical install guide that keep track only of the differences from Linux, much like the RedHat, Debian, and Suse variants are incorporated now.

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9: Re: OpenACS5 install on Mac OS X (response to 8)
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 12/26/03 01:07 PM

Just for the record, I used the instructions from Vinod, except that I am using PostgreSQL 7.4: 

% psql -V
psql (PostgreSQL) 7.4

It works fine with AOLserver 4, OpenACS-HEAD on Panther (on a powerbook G4). I will try in the New Year to get the same on an Xserve and Mac OS X 10.3 server. Hopefully everything will compile smoothly ;).