Install OpenACS on debian unstable / Ubuntu 7.10

 

This page is mostly obsolete. There are now Debian packages for all OpenACS requirements, and OpenACS (.LRN) itself, and a fairly general installer from scratch naviserver-openacs.

See The debian wiki page

The rest of this page is superseded by the debian wiki page.

You can also use the en:OpenACSDebianInstallGuide quicksheet.

Install tcl 8.4

apt-get install tcl8.4 tcl8.4-dev tcl8.4-doc

Install PostgreSQL 8.2

(from ubuntu repository or debian etch) for PG 8.2 I had to add this line to the /etc/apt/sources.list (under debian etch) 

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free 

Install with apt

apt-get install postgresql-8.2 postgresql-client postgresql-dev postgresql-doc 

under debian-etch I did this to avoid downloading some 7.4-packages

apt-get install postgresql-8.2 postgresql-client-8.2 postgresql-dev postgresql-doc-8.2 

Config the postgresql 8.x

from How_to_install_in_Postgres_8.x
/etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf

add_missing_from = on
regex_flavor = extended
default_with_oids = on

On debian you could need to change the postgresql port number to 5432, see /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf

Create the database

su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/createlang plpgsql template1"
su postgres -c "createuser service"

Shall the new user be allowed to create
    databases? (y/n) y
  Shall the new user be allowed to create
    more new users? (y/n) y
  CREATE USER

su postgres -c "createdb -E UNICODE service"

Install AOLserver

(AOLserver 4.5 for now only from debian unstable)
# Note: on ubuntu maybe more better install AOLserver 4.0 and you can download it from debian stable

1. Add the next lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
   deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
   

2. Update

   apt-get update
   

   # If you have any trouble with gpg keys, then you must read: http://www.davidam.com/debian/debian-gpg
    
3. Install wit apt

   apt-get install -t unstable aolserver4 aolserver4-nscache aolserver4-nsopenssl aolserver4-nspostgres aolserver4-nssha1 aolserver4-dev aolserver4-doc daemontools-installer cvs

   *note: unpack the https.gz from aolserver4-nsopenssl and copy it over to the tcl directory of aolserver4, if not the api with https such as ns_httpspost will not be available.

   https.gz is normally found at /usr/share/doc/aolserver4-nsopenssl/examples/

   The tcl directory for aolserver4 is normally found at /usr/lib/aolserver4/modules/tcl/

4. Install tdom from cvs
   # Sometimes cvs.tdom.org is down, if you have problems you can download with

   wget http://cognovis.de/file-storage/view/aolserver45.tar.bz2 
   cd /usr/lib/aolserver4
   sudo ln -s /usr/include/aolserver4 include
   mkdir /usr/local/src/aolserver4
   cd /usr/local/src/aolserver4
   sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tdom.org:/usr/local/pubcvs co tdom
   cd tdom/unix  
   ../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc --with-aolserver=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
   sudo make install
   

5. Install XOTcl

   cd /usr/local/src
   sudo wget http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xotcl-1.6.7.tar.gz
   sudo tar xvfz xotcl-1.6.7.tar.gz
   cd xotcl-1.6.7/
   export CC=gcc
   sudo ./configure --enable-threads --enable-symbols --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --exec-prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
   sudo make
   sudo make install-aol

6. Install TclLib

   cd /usr/local/src
   sudo wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcllib/tcllib-1.10.tar.gz
   sudo tar xvzf tcllib-1.10.tar.gz
   cd tcllib-1.10
   sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4
   sudo make install
   

Download and config OpenACS 5.4

1. Create the directory where we can install OpenACS

   adduser service
   su - service
   mkdir aolserver
   cd aolserver

2. Copy the two config files aolserver.nsadmin and nsadmin.tcl there:

   wget http://www.davidam.com/debian/aolserver.nsadmin
   wget http://www.davidam.com/debian/nsadmin.tcl

3. Change nsadmin to service

   mv aolserver.nsadmin aolserver.service
   mv nsadmin.tcl service.tcl
   
   sed -i "s/nsadmin/service/g" aolserver.service service.tcl
   

4. Download OpenACS from cvs

   cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co -r oacs-5-4 openacs-4
   mv openacs-4 service 
   chmod 774 aolserver.service
   

    # create log directory (if needed)

    

   mkdir service/log 

5. Start AOLserver

   ./aolserver.service start

   Some minutes after that, it must be running on http://localhost:8000