Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 22.04 - Revision history

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added issue as Ubuntu 22.04 is now only LTS that needs libncurses5 rather than libncurses6

2026-05-01T15:02:56Z

Added issue as Ubuntu 22.04 is now only LTS that needs libncurses5 rather than libncurses6

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Remove mysql root user issue, as is now part of the getting started process

2025-09-21T08:33:21Z

Remove mysql root user issue, as is now part of the getting started process

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 15:09, 23 August 2024

2024-08-23T15:09:11Z

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Moved MySQL root user cannot be used to previous issues as this is now commonplace.

2024-08-23T10:26:53Z

Moved MySQL root user cannot be used to previous issues as this is now commonplace.

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 20:13, 29 May 2022

2022-05-29T20:13:00Z

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 22.04

2022-05-29T14:57:46Z

Added Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 22.04

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'''N.B. It is assumed that you are installing the [[:Category:Eprints3.4 | latest version of 3.4]]. Earlier versions may have issues not listed here.'''

==== MySQL root user cannot be used ====
On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS rather than prompting you to set a password for MySQL server when installing this as a dependency, it just installs it without. However, this means on the root user can login to MySQL to add a database. As "epadmin create" runs at the eprints user, this will not be able to create a database for EPrints. The get round this as the root user connect to MySQL (just type "mysql" at the command line) and type the following two commands. You will want to set your own password (i.e. not 'changeme') , you may also want to restrict which databases the eprints user has control over. If you know the "Archive ID" you are going to use.
CREATE USER 'eprints'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED by 'changeme';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'eprints'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

==== Previous issues ====
; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.

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	; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.		; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.
	; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.		; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.
		+	; ''libncurses6'' Deb package not available : In more recent versions of Ubuntu libncurses6 is the name for the ncurses package but as Ubuntu 22.04 is older you will need to install ''libncurses5'' instead.

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 ==== Previous issues ====
 ; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.
-; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. as it is typically for most modern Linux operating systems.
+; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. as it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.

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	==== Previous issues ====		==== Previous issues ====
	; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.		; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.
		+	; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. as it is typically for most modern Linux operating systems.

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 '''N.B. It is assumed that you are installing the [[:Category:Eprints3.4 | latest version of 3.4]]. Earlier versions may have issues not listed here.'''
-==== MySQL root user cannot be used ====
+'''<big>NO CURRENT ISSUES</big>'''
 ==== Previous issues ====
 ; ''libsepol1'' Deb package no longer exists : This has been removed as a dependency on 29th May 2022, as it is not specifically required by EPrints.
-; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. as it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.
+; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.

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 ==== MySQL root user cannot be used ====
-On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS rather than prompting you to set a password for MySQL server when installing this as a dependency, it just installs it without.  However, this means on the root user can login to MySQL to add a database.  As "epadmin create" runs at the eprints user, this will not be able to create a database for EPrints.  The get round this as the root user connect to MySQL (just type "mysql" at the command line) and type the following two commands.  You will want to set your own password (i.e. not 'changeme') , you may also want to restrict which databases the eprints user has control over.  If you know the "Archive ID" you are going to use.
+On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS rather than prompting you to set a password for MySQL server when installing this as a dependency, it just installs it without.  However, this means on the root user can login to MySQL to add a database.  As "epadmin create" runs at the eprints user, this will not be able to create a database for EPrints.  The get round this as the root user connect to MySQL (just type "mysql" at the command line) and type the following two commands.  You will want to set your own password (i.e. not 'changeme') , you may also want to restrict which databases the eprints user has control over.  If you know the "Archive ID" you are going to use.
   CREATE USER 'eprints'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED by 'changeme';
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'eprints'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;