Installing EPrints on Debian/Ubuntu

Requirements

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or 16.04 LTS (non-LTS versions not recommended) or Debian 7 (Wheezy) or 8 (Jessie).

Installing form EPrints 3.3.x DEB

deb http://deb.eprints.org/ stable/

Installing Eprints via apt-get

To install Eprints and all its dependencies execute the following (as root):

apt-get update
apt-get install eprints

Setting up a Repository

You should now have a working installation of eprints in /usr/share/eprints3/. Please follow the on-screen instructions to set up an eprints repository. You probably want to start with (as root):

For more information about setting up an EPrints repository take a look at Getting Started with EPrints 3

Read First: Known issues with the Debian/Ubuntu package can be found at Debian Known Issues.

su eprints
cd
./bin/epadmin create
logout
a2ensite eprints3
apache2ctl restart

If you have any problems getting set up you can get free help and support from the EP-Tech mailing list. For free support and discussion about EPrints you can sign up to EP-Tech.

Installing EPrints 3.3.x from Source

N.B. Installing from source is generally discouraged particularly for production repositories. However, if want to develop the EPrints code or a plugin or Bazaar package it may be useful to install from source, ideally from EPrints Core Git repository.

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Getting Started

See Getting Started with EPrints 3.

Troubleshooting

Issues with Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.3/2.4)

Apache 2.3+ and PERL v5.16+ introduce a few changes which break EPrints.

A complete HOW-TO guide to install EPrints3 on Ubuntu 14.04 is available here

Current patches on github are:

• See last comment on https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/214 [ use of remote_ip ]
• https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/237 [ NameVirtualHost deprecated ]
• https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/236 [ Order allow,deny deprecated ]
• https://github.com/eprints/eprints/commit/157db0d27d423d38f9c0fc31ce47e519cd861d45 [ utf8::decode and URI parameters ]

Ensure that mpm_prefork module is enabled in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled (among others).

Complete list of modules for a working repository include the following (although some may be surplus to requirements e.g. php5 is not strictly necessary)

• access_compat.load
• alias.conf
• alias.load
• auth_basic.load
• authn_core.load
• authn_file.load
• authz_core.load
• authz_host.load
• authz_user.load
• autoindex.conf
• autoindex.load
• deflate.conf
• deflate.load
• dir.conf
• dir.load
• env.load
• filter.load
• mime.conf
• mime.load
• mpm_prefork.conf
• mpm_prefork.load
• negotiation.conf
• negotiation.load
• perl.load
• php5.conf
• php5.load
• setenvif.conf
• setenvif.load
• status.conf
• status.load