Installing EPrints 3 on Debian

See also: Installing EPrints 3 via apt (Debian/Ubuntu)

Download an appropriate EPrints Release

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Setting up Debian

This instructions assume a working Debian ("Edgy Eft") installation (or close approximation thereof).

Install EPrints Dependencies

Install Apache and mod_perl:

root@debian$  apt-get install apach2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-perl2

Install MySQL:

root@debian$ apt-get install install mysql-server

Install perl dependencies:

root@debian$ apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl libunicode-string-perl \
  libterm-readkey-perl libmime-lite-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libxml-parser-perl.

Auxiliary Packages

You need further packages for the seamless work of Eprints; these might or might not be installed on the system:

Packages for building eprints:

root@debian$ apt-get install gzip tar unzip make lynx wget ncftp ftp

Programs for extracting content (from 3.3 onwards antiword is only used as a Word -> PDF converter so not strictly necessary):

root@debian$ apt-get install gs xpdf xv antiword elinks

Programs making pictures, formulas, etc.

root@debian$ apt-get install pdftk tetex-bin psutils imagemagick

Configuring MySQL

It is strongly recommended that you set a root password in mysql:

$ mysqladmin -u root password <new password>

Create an 'eprints' system user

root@debain$ adduser --system --home /opt/eprints3 --group eprints 

Add the 'www-data' user to the 'eprints' group:

root@debain$ adduser www-data eprints

Install EPrints

Download EPrints 3. Unpack and install the tarball:

$ tar xzvf eprints-3.x.y.tar.gz
$ cd eprints-3.x.y
$ ./configure --with-smtp-server=smtp.yourdomain
$ sudo ./install.pl

Set up Apache2

Add this line to /etc/apache2/sites-available/eprints

Include /opt/eprints3/cfg/apache.conf

and enable the site

$ sudo a2ensite eprints

(this leaves /etc/apache2/apache.conf untouched, making future Apache upgrades easier)

Set up the indexer as a service

$ sudo ln -s /opt/eprints3/bin/epindexer /etc/init.d/epindexer

Make the indexer start automatically when the machine is rebooted:

$ sudo update-rc.d epindexer defaults 99 99

Configure an archive

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

• Getting Started with EPrints 3

Restarting Apache

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload