Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc.

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23: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc. (response to 1)
Posted by Luigi Martini on 04/22/04 02:28 AM
I tried that dotlrn thing, but they say that it doesn't work on woody.

I think I will follow the documentation step by step, and try installing OpenACS. There are many black holes, though; the fist one is: Debian documentation strongly suggests to install software with that apt-get command, while OpenACS manual often says something different (es. "Debian users, especially Debian stable users, should install PostGreSQL from source as detailed below...").
I am a bit puzzled.

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24: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc. (response to 23)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 04/22/04 06:33 PM
The OpenACS documentation needs to be updated. The absolutely recommended way to install PostgreSQL on Debian is through the packages.

The packages handle quite a bit of the initial configuration,  do some security tightening, etc. For Debian stable, packages are available from people.debian.org/~elphick/ as posted earlier on this thread.

I have installed OpenACS on Debian woody. I grabbed the PostgreSQL woody packages, grabbed the tcl8.4 package from backports.org (IIRC) and re-compiled the AOLserver package from unstable.

It'd be nice if the AOLserver package maintainer made woody backports of those packages on his people.debian.org area. Maybe he already does.

-Roberto