Forum OpenACS Q&A: Installing OpenFTS Fails

Posted by Gilbert Price on 08/15/02 02:10 AM

Good Evening All,
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I'm trying to get site wide-searching installed via OpenFTS. So far
I've done everything in the "Next Steps" document, but when I try the
following:
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[nsadmin@bigbang aolserver]$ psql -f
web/combined/packages/openfts-driver/sql/postgresql/load.sql
psql: FATAL 1: Database "nsadmin" does not exist in the system catalog.
[nsadmin@bigbang aolserver]$
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I don't understand why I am getting the "nsadmin" error, I have had
OpenACS up and running for 3 days now. I've been adding content just
fine. Today I'm trying to get the search tool working. Everything in
the "Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.2" package has gone as indicated in the
"Next Steps" document.
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Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated.

2: Response to Installing OpenFTS Fails (response to 1)

Posted by Gilbert Price on 08/15/02 02:48 AM

As usual, after re-reading the docs on the web site, I see my printed instructions forgot to specify the DB name at the end of the command. Now it's installed, so we'll see what we shall see...

Thanks and please don't be too irritated with my public conversation with myself...

3: Response to Installing OpenFTS Fails (response to 1)

Posted by Vinod Kurup on 08/15/02 03:33 AM

Public conversations with oneself are actively encouraged here 😊

I'm not sure why the database name didn't show up on the printed version, but as someone mentioned in another thread, we need to make PDF versions of the docs available. I'm not sure exactly how to do this, but it should be possible - that's one of the vaunted features of Docbook.

4: Creating PDF documentation (response to 1)

Posted by Ken Mayer on 08/15/02 04:11 AM

Brute force idea:

Make one giant page and print to postscript.

ps2pdf: part of the ghostscript package.

Have a beer.

5: Response to Installing OpenFTS Fails (response to 1)

Posted by Vinod Kurup on 08/16/02 04:23 AM

Thanks Ken. I've uploaded them to new-file-storage for the time being. Note that this is just 1 huge PDF - 299 pages and 1.1 MB in size. I've been trying to get PDF generation done directly from DocBook, but my attempts with the programs 'xmlto' and 'pdfxmltex' have been fruitless so far. I'll get it done at some point though.

Where's my beer?