Forum OpenACS Q&A: DEbian Installation Docs

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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
On the debian install documentation:
https://openacs.org/wiki/Installing%20OpenACS%20on%20Debian%20Linux

I don't see the reason to have this step:
mv /tmp/openacs-5.1.5 service1

I guess it would be:
mv /var/lib/aolserver service1
Is that correct?

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su - service1
cd /tmp
wget https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/download/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz
cd /var/lib/aolserver
tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz
mv /tmp/openacs-5.1.5 service1
chmod -R 755 service1
chown -R service1.web service1
exit
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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
Just to correct my message above...

I guess it would be:
mv /var/lib/aolserver/openacs-5.1.5 service1
Is that correct?

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Posted by Nick Carroll on
No, the documentation is correct. You have untarred openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz into /tmp. Then you changed directory to /var/lib/aolserver. So you need to move the untarred openacs-5.1.5 directory to your current directory (/var/lib/aolserver), changing the name of the moved directory from openacs-5.1.5 to "service1". Note, you don't have to call it service1. You can simply call it "openacs", but you'll need to change all service1 references to openacs, if you so choose.
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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
But as it's written on the docs, i would be untarring on /var/lib/aolserver

just follow the commands.
first you type: cd /var/lib/aolserver , which takes you to that folder and then you untar it.
So the tar file is in /tmp and it will be untarred on /var/lib/aolserver. the current directory.

So now you completely made me lost.
what should i do?

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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
I guess i already answered my question.
what i need to do is exaclty what you have written, but we should change the order on the docs:

instead of:
cd /var/lib/aolserver
tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz

i have:

tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz
cd /var/lib/aolserver

to save your time...here it's the link to the docs :)
https://openacs.org/wiki/Installing%20OpenACS%20on%20Debian%20Linux