Forum OpenACS Q&A: Ubuntu 8.04

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1: Ubuntu 8.04
Posted by Avni Khatri on 03/30/11 04:35 AM
Hi -

I'm trying to get openacs working on my personal box and
just realized that the openacs package was not available for Ubuntu 8.04? The wiki (https://openacs.org/xowiki/ubuntu) states you need 10.04. I thought that at some point it had been available?

- Am I remembering wrong?
- Does anyone have openacs package installed on Ubuntu 8.04?

Thanks much,
Avni

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2: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 03/30/11 04:58 AM
I know I had it installed before. There might be an older version of that page. If the packages are available you might get an older OpenACS.

You might want to install all the requirements from ubuntu and install OpenACS from cvs or tarball.

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3: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 2)
Posted by Héctor Romojaro on 03/30/11 01:11 PM
Hi Avni,

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is no longer being supported by the ubuntu guys, so it doesn't make sense to support the old 8.04 openacs packages. That's why I updated the wiki pages with information about installing on ubuntu 10.04, the current LTS version.

If you really need it, i think i could find the old packages and dependencies needed for ubuntu 8.04, but I strongly suggest you to update to 10.04.

Cheers, Héctor

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4: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 3)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 03/31/11 12:53 AM
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is no longer being supported by the ubuntu guys,

That's not really true. Ubuntu supports the desktop parts of an LTS release for 3 years and the server stuff for 5, so everything that OpenACS was using on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS should still be supported through April 2013. Yeah, it'd probably be better for Avni to upgrade that old machine to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but he isn't the only one who hasn't gotten around to doing that. (And every once in a while, an older machine just won't work at all on a newer Linux release.)

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5: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 4)
Posted by Avni Khatri on 03/31/11 07:53 AM
I'm actually using a cloud hosting service so I am stuck using the OS they provide. I asked if they could upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 and they said they couldn't because "Ubuntu 10 has no dom0 support".

Hector - Did we have an openacs package for 8.04? If yes - how can I access it?

(Also - I'm a she).

Thanks much.

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6: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 5)
Posted by Héctor Romojaro on 03/31/11 09:46 AM
Hi Avni,

Ok, you can use the packages (and dependencies) on our community repository:

deb http://debian.adenu.ia.uned.es/apt hardy

Versions packaged there are quite old (OpenACS 5.4.3, IIRC), but you can install just the dependencies and use the openacs tarball. Please remember to install postgres first, if you need it.

Cheers, Héctor

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7: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 6)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 05/06/11 03:15 AM
To install the packages on Ubuntu 8.04

you need to

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this line at the end

deb http://debian.adenu.ia.uned.es/apt hardy

Save the file then do

sudo apt-get update

From there you should be able to install all the dependencies for OpenACS with this command

apt-get install aolserver4 aolserver4-nscache aolserver4-nssha1 aolserver4-nspostgres postgresql

You probably still want to download the latest release of OpenACS or get it from CVS to complete the install which means you'll need to edit the config file to point to the right places. Most of the default config file should work on an Ubuntu install.

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8: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 (response to 1)
Posted by Mary Kate Smith on 12/03/11 08:07 PM
To install this package in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install openacs. You can use dpkg to know more about openacs after installing it: dpkg -s openacs.