INSTALL OPENACS ON UBUNTU 7.10 / DEBIAN UNSTABLE


# 1) Install tcl 8.4

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

# 2) Install PostgreSQL 8.2 (from ubuntu repository or debian etch)

# 2.1) Install with apt

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

# 2.2) Config the postgresql 8.x from http://openacs.org/xowiki/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 change the postgresql port number on debian etch to 5432, see /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf

# 2.3) Create the database
su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/createlang plpgsql template1"
su postgres -c "createuser service --no-superuser --createdb --createrole"
su postgres -c "createdb -E UNICODE service"

# 3) Install 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

# 3.1) 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

# 3.2) Update

apt-get update

# If you have troubles with gpg keys, then you must read: http://www.davidam.com/debian/debian-gpg

# 3.3) Install wit apt

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


# 3.4) 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  

# 3.5) Next on the list is XoTCL

cd /usr/local/src
sudo wget http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xotcl-1.5.6.tar.gz
sudo tar xvfz xotcl-1.5.6.tar.gz
cd xotcl-1.5.6/
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

# 3.6) Now TclLib

sudo wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcllib/tcllib-1.10.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvfj tcllib-1.10.tar.bz2
cd tcllib-1.10
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4
sudo make install

# 4) Download and config Openacs 5.3.2

# 4.1) Create the directory where we can install openacs
su - service
mkdir aolserver
cd aolserver

# 4.2) Copy all the two config files there in. The files are aolserver.nsadmin y nsadmin.tcl

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

# 4.3) Change nsadmin to service
mv aolserver.nsadmin aolserver.service
mv nsadmin.tcl service.tcl
sed -i "s/nsadmin/service/g" aolserver.service service.tcl

# 4.4) Download openacs of the cvs
# cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co -r oacs-5-1 openacs-4
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co -r oacs-5-2 openacs-4
mv openacs-4 service 
chmod 774 aolserver.service

# 4.5) Start aol     
mkdir service/log   
/aolserver.service start

# some minutes after, it must run from http://localhost:8000