Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 26.04
Revision as of 15:00, 9 May 2026 by Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk (talk | contribs) (Updated to explain the problem in more detail and link to GitHub)
As of 9th May 2026, Ubuntu 26.04 is still under testing to determine if EPrints can be successfully installed and if so if there are any issues with doing this, which require a different approach from the general approach for installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu Linux.
Current Issues
- XML library compatability problems
- This will first occur at the point where you complete the credentials you want to use for your archive's database whilst you are running
bin/epadmin create pub. It will exhibit itself with the following error message or possibly one that relates to memory allocation (malloc) or free commands. This is due to how EPrints make use of theXML:LibXMLPerl library that ultimately use the C library libxml2. As of 9th May 202 we have yet to diagnose why this is happening. This GitHub issue first raised for what appears to be the same issue with FreeBSD 14.3 provides some more detail about this problem.
Segmentation fault (core dumped) bin/epadmin create pub
