Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: xowiki install, which prerequisites?
I've installed, tested and validated the following configuration on both Linux (OpenSuse 10.3) and Windows (XP, and Vista) both with PostgreSQL 8.2.7 and with Oracle 10g and Oracle 11g.
Applications:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>Package</td><td>Version</td></tr>
<tr><td>Openacs</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>File Storage</td><td>5.4.0d6</td></tr>
<tr><td>General Comments</td><td>5.2.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Notifications</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Search</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>xowiki</td><td>0.83</td></tr>
</table>
Services:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>Package</td><td>Version</td></tr>
<tr><td>ACS Events</td><td>0.6d2</td></tr>
<tr><td>ACS Reference Data</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>ACS Translation Storage</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>API Browser</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Authentication</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Automated Testing</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bootstrap Installer</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Categories</td><td>1.1.2d3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content Repository</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Date and Time Utilities</td><td>5.2.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Documentation</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Kernel</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Localization</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mail Services Lite</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Messaging</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>RSS Support</td><td>0.3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reference Data - Timezone</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Service Contracts</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Site-Wide Administration</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Subsite</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tcl Library</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Templating</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tsearch2 Driver</td><td>5.4.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>XOTcl Core</td><td>0.83</td></tr>
<tr><td>webDAV Support</td><td>1.1b1</td></tr>
</table>
Operating system and related packages
Linux:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>Package</td><td>Version</td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenSUSE</td><td>10.3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Aolserver</td><td>4.5.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oracle Instant Client + OCI Client</td><td>10.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL</td><td>8.2.7</td></tr>
<tr><td>tDOM</td><td>0.8.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>tcl</td><td>8.5.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>tcllib</td><td>1.10</td></tr>
<tr><td>thread</td><td>2.6.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>tk</td><td>8.5.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>xotcl</td><td>1.6.0</td></tr>
</table>
Windows:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>Package</td><td>Version</td></tr>
<tr><td>Visual Studio</td><td>Visual Studio 2008 SP1 its runtime</td></tr>
<tr><td>Aolserver</td><td>4.5.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oracle Instant Client + OCI Client</td><td>10.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL</td><td>8.2.7</td></tr>
<tr><td>tDOM</td><td>0.8.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>tcl</td><td>8.5.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>tcllib</td><td>1.10</td></tr>
<tr><td>thread</td><td>2.6.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>tk</td><td>8.5.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>xotcl</td><td>1.6.0</td></tr>
</table>
For Windows the source code (which I had to modify in very few places) as well as all the precompiled binaries are available here:
http://www.friendlybits.com/en/inf_tec_en/win32openacs_en/
For Linux I've generated at work an OpenSUSE 10.3 VMware Appliance containing all the above software (plus other) already precompiled and tested again with both PostgreSQL 8.2.7 and Oracel 10g and 11g. This appliance has proven to be incredibly useful both as developer machine and as testing and production environment. When we need to produce a new installation we just copy the appliance: no painful installations any longer.
I believe it would be nice to:
1. create an Installer for Windows (starting from my Win32-OpenACS port) able to automatically build example/toys databases for OpenACS, .LRN and Project-Open;
2. create a smaller VMware Appliance (the one I created at work is too big) with the bare minimum to demonstrate OpenACS, .LRN and Project-Open.
Anybody interested?
Hope it helps,
Maurizio
