Forum OpenACS Q&A: Installation in Mandrake 8.1

Collapse
1: Installation in Mandrake 8.1
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 12/07/01 11:51 PM
I am attempting to install in Mandrake 8.1. Has anyone done this
before and wants to share some tips? Are they any specifically
written Rpm's or can I use the ones developed for RedHat?

Thanks in advance

Collapse
2: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 12/08/01 12:12 AM
I installed from source on mandrake 8.1, no problems.
Collapse
3: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 12/08/01 12:21 AM
thanks for this... I hope it will work for me too... still... if possible, I rather use rpm's, as I have found that I am just not good enough to be able to install from source confidently.
Collapse
4: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 12/08/01 02:59 AM
I did an RPM install on a Mandrake 8.0 system, and the results were fine.  Not sure about 8.1, but it is certainly worth a shot.

For 8.0, it was important to uninstall the postgres version that came with the Mandrake install, and instead use Jonathan's RPMs.

Collapse
5: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Luigi Martini on 12/09/01 09:45 AM
Uninstall Postgres....uuumm, right. Please, how do I uninstall that Postgres: what do I type, and where on the screen?
Collapse
6: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 12/09/01 11:38 AM
which RPM's ? I am assuming that the ones for RedHat 7.1 should
work, but can someone confirm this?... Thanks
Collapse
7: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 12/10/01 05:17 AM
I used the RH 7.1 RPMs with Mandrake 8.0.

To uninstall the postgres that comes with mandrake, go into "software manager" (on your desktop), find it, and tell the package manager to uninstall it.  You're going to have to grab the libxml(??) rpm also, postgres drivers RPMs, etc etc.  Jonathan Marsden has everything you need on his site, or did a couple months ago.

Good luck :)

Cathy Sarisky

Collapse
8: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 12/10/01 05:23 AM
List of RPM files:
http://www.xc.org/jonathan/openacs/whichfilesdoineed.html

This site lists aolserver 3.2.4-ad12, which has a memory leak.  (I'm running -ad12, and find I need a restart every couple days.  Clearly I need to patch up to -ad13 next weekend when I take the server down.)

Looks like there's also a -ad13 version in http://www.xc.org/jonathan/openacs/, which might be the better option.  Jonathan?

Collapse
9: Response to Installation in Mandrake 8.1 (response to 1)
Posted by defunct defunct on 12/12/01 11:05 AM
One rather irritating problem I've had (although notably only with
the Oracle version) is that occasionally if I kill aolserver a
single process remains, which prevent further operation of new
aolservers and also is un-killable.. i.e system reboot required.

We've been trying to recreate this un prediactable conditions, but
so far all I can tell you is its more prolific when aolserver is
automatically restarted via initttab...

Collapse
10: NSD not dying (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 12/12/01 03:10 PM
I run AOLserver 3.3+ad13 and I notice that if I shut it down one process remains. This only happens when using Oracle. I do killall nsd and it goes away. I use daemontools to control AOLserver. It is much more flexible than inittab.