EdShare Reference Installation

EdShare

Supported EPrints Versions 3.2 Project Started 2009 Project Webpage http://edshare.org.uk Created By ECS, University of Southampton Recipies EdShare Reference Installation

Introduction

The EdShare Reference Installation is the standard installation for EdShare and includes all of the functionality that is covered by the EdShare suite.

It is important to note that the EdShare Reference Installation assumes that you have a clean installation of EPrints 3.1.3.

Features

Once you have completed this recipie you will have a repository that has the following functionality;

• A simplified workflow removing features that are not required in the context of a teaching and learning resources repository
• Ability to create collections of resources
• Users can bookmark resources and collections
• There will be previews of documents on abstract pages

Installation

Conventions

The following conventions apply in this recipie;

• EPRINTS_ROOT - This is where you installed eprints. Usually this is /usr/share/eprints3 on Debian/Ubuntu or /opt/eprints3 following a source code install. Obviously change this if you installed EPrints elsewhere.
• ARCHIVEID - This is the id of the archive you set up that you want to carry out this recipie on.

Getting Started

EPrints

You will need to have installed EPrints 3.1.3 before continuing. See the following pages for reference on how to do this;

• Ubuntu/Debian Installing EPrints 3 via apt (Debian/Ubuntu)
• Other Linux Installing from source

Plugins

You will need to obtain the following plugins in order to complete this recipie;

• EdShareCore
• EdShareCollections (EdShareCollectionsInstallation)
• EdShareToolbox
• MePrints (MePrintsInstall)
• Sneep
• PreviewPlus

Additionally consult these pages for individual installation instructions for these plugins.

Extensions Installation

Before starting ensure that you are logged in as the eprints user and in your EPRINTS_ROOT. Usually you can do this by running;

sudo su eprints
cd

You need to make sure this is the case before you attempt to install any of the extensions.

EdShareCore

Firstly change into your archive directory and extract the edsharecore tarball there. The name of your tarball may be different depending on the version you downloaded;

cd EPRINTS_ROOT/archives/ARCHIVEID
tar -xzf edsharecore-VERSION.tgz

Next you need to update your database structure, regenerate your views and regenerate your static pages;

EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/epadmin update_database_structure ARCHIVEID
EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/generate_views ARCHIVEID
EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/generate_static ARCHIVEID

Finally all you need to do is restart your web server to ensure that the settings are applied and you will now have EdShareCore installed.

EdShareCollections

If you re not in your archive directory then change into is and extract the edsharecollections tarball there. The name of your tarball may be different depending on the version you downloaded;

cd EPRINTS_ROOT/archives/ARCHIVEID
tar -xzf collections-VERSION.tgz

Next we need to link the cgi scripts;

ln -s EPRINTS_ROOT/archives/ARCHIVEID/cgi/users/collectionselect/ EPRINTS_ROOT/cgi/users
ln -s EPRINTS_ROOT/archives/ARCHIVEID/cgi/users/bookmarks/ EPRINTS_ROOT/cgi/users

Next assuming we are working from a vanilla installation of EPrints we need to patch the workflow so that it supports collections;

patch -p0 < default_collection_workflow.patch

If you have already changed the workflow before installing this extension then you will need to consult the EdShareCollectionInstallation instructions.