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Step by step guide to getting EPrints 3 installed on Fedora Core 5.

Much of the text has been shamelessly copied from [[Installing on Fedora Core 4]].

Please add bugs and comments at the end of this page.

==Install Fedora Core 5==

When setting up prior to install, select ''Web Server'' and ''Software Development''.  Also select ''Customize now'' and on the next screen click on ''Servers'' and ''MYSQL Database'', then click the ''Optional Packages'' button and tick everything.

On the first boot, when setting up the computer, set the Firewall and SELinux to ''Disabled''.  When asked to create a System User, create one with the username ''eprints''.

==Install Required Packages==

If this is the first time yum has been run, import the GPG-KEYs for the Fedora RPM repositories:

 root> rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-5/*GPG-KEY*

If your eprints server connects to the Web via a proxy, set the http_proxy environment variable:

 root> export http_proxy=http://proxy.yourdomain.com:port/

Use yum to install the Gnome DOM libraries:

 root> yum install gdome2 gdome2-devel

.. the wvware Word document libraries:

 root> yum install wv

.. and xpdf:

 root> yum install xpdf

wvText (from wv) and pdftotext (from xpdf) are used by the EPrints for full text indexing.

==Install Required Perl Modules==

The majority of perl modules need by EPrints are already installed.

Install Unicode::String using yum:

 root> yum install perl-Unicode-String

Install XML::GDOME (and dependancies) from source:

 root> cpan XML::LibXML
 root> wget http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/cpan/authors/id/T/TJ/TJMATHER/XML-GDOME-0.86.tar.gz
 root> tar xzvf XML-GDOME-0.86.tar.gz
 root> cd XML-GDOME-0.86/
 root> perl Makefile.PL
 root> make
 root> make install

Install Term::ReadKey and MIME::Lite with CPAN

 root> cpan Term::ReadKey
 root> cpan MIME::Lite

==Set up services==

Make apache and mysql start automatically when the machine is rebooted:

 root> /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
 root> /sbin/chkconfig httpd on

==Install EPrints==

 Download the Eprints tar.gz file

 root> tar xzvf eprints3.x.x.x
 root> cd eprints3.x.x.x/

Find out the name of your outgoing SMTP (email) server.

 root> ./configure --with-smtp-server smtp.yourdomain
 root> ./install.pl

==Set up apache==

Edit the apache config:

 root> vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Find the lines:

 User apache
 Group apache

and change them to:

 User eprints
 Group eprints

Add this line to the end of httpd.conf:

 Include /opt/eprints3/cfg/apache.conf

==Set up the indexer as a service==

 root> ln -s /opt/eprints3/bin/epindexer /etc/init.d/epindexer
 root> chkconfig --add epindexer

Make the indexer start automatically when the machine is rebooted:

 root> chkconfig epindexer on

==Configure an archive==

Start mysql:

 root> service mysqld start

Follow the steps in the main EPrints documentation to configure an archive.