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Some improvements to the installation docs.

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Andrew McMillan 2006-11-23 15:49:29 +13:00
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<h1>Before Starting</h1>
<h2>Debian Users</h2>
<p>Ideally you will be running a recent Debian release and will
<p>Ideally you will be running a recent Debian (or Ubuntu) release and will
be able to add:</p>
<pre>
deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian unstable awm
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can use <code>apt-get</code> or <code>synaptic</code> or some other equivalent package
manager to fetch and install <code>rscds</code> and all the dependencies.</p>
<p>This repository is signed by my public key, which you can install so that
you don't get asked for confirmation all the time:</p>
<pre>
sudo apt-key advanced --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys CCA377BD77494424B0DB674F8C90347F8F068012
</pre>
<p>Skip to the "Database Setup" part if you have done that already.</p>
<h2>Other Linux Users</h2>
<h3>RPM Packages of RSCDS</h3>
<p>I have created RPM packages of RSCDS and libawl-php from the .deb packages
using "alien". I don't know how well these work, so would appreciate feedback
about your success with them.</p>
<h3>Gentoo, Slackware, BSD and the rest</h3>
<p>You will need to download the latest versions of the <code>rscds</code> and <code>awl</code> packages
from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=179845">sourceforge download page for rscds</a>.</p>
<p>You will need to untar these. Preferably you will untar them from within the "<code>/usr/share</code>" directory and everything
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<ul>
<li>Apache: 1.3.x or 2.x.x</li>
<li>PHP: 4.3 or greater, including PHP5</li>
<li>PostgreSQL: 7.4 or greater</li>
<li>PostgreSQL: 7.4 or greater (8.1 or better recommended)</li>
</ul>
<p>The PostgreSQL database may be installed on a server other
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createuser --no-createdb --no-createrole general
</pre>
<p>PostgreSQL 7.4 named things slightly differently, so you
should use something like:</p>
<pre>
createuser --no-createdb --no-adduser general
</pre>
<p>You may need to become the 'postgres' user to do this, in which case
you will need to be the postgres user to create the database as well.
For example:</p>
For example (for PostgreSQL 8.x):</p>
<pre>
su postgres -c createuser --no-createdb --no-createrole general
</pre>
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able to browse to that address and see a page telling you that
you need to configure RSCDS.</p>
<p>On Debian systems (or derivatives such as Ubuntu), when you are
using Apache 2, you should put this definition in the /etc/apache2/sites-available
directory and you can use the 'a2ensite' command to enable it.</p>
<h1>RSCDS Configuration</h1>
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<p>If all is working then you should be ready to configure a client
to use this, and the docs for that are elsewhere.</p>
<h1>Upgrades</h1>
<p>Whenever you upgrade the RSCDS application to a new version you will need to
run dba/update-rscds-database which will apply any pending database patches, as well as
enabling any new translations.</p>
<p>In due course the running of this script will be able to be handled by
the packaging system, but that change will not happen until early 2007.</p>
<?php
include("inc/page-footer.php");
?>