How to build a development environment from source control

This article explains the various ways you can build a development environment for EPrints source contributions. If you have a method not listed here then please add it. Instructions assume familiarity with EPrints and the command line. You can use repositories built in this way to test contributions to EPrints source before pushing them to the git remote.

If you find bugs with any of these instructions please update them

Ubuntu 14.04

Take a clean ubuntu 14.04 build

sudo su
apt-get install git
echo "deb http://deb.eprints.org/ nightly/
deb-src http://deb.eprints.org/ source/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eprints.nightly.list
apt-get update
apt-get build-dep eprints
ln -s /home/<yourusername>/eprints /usr/share/eprints3

su <yourusername>
cd ~
git clone git@github.com:eprints/eprints.git


echo "package EPrints::SystemSettings;

\$EPrints::SystemSettings::conf =
{
        'base_path' => '/usr/share/eprints3',
        'version_id' => 'git',
        'version' => 'EPrints (development version)',
        'user' => '$USER',
        'group' => '$USER',
        'smtp_server' => 'smtp',
};

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CentOs

• If using Vagrant, see https://github.com/eprintsug/eprints-vagrant

User-space EPrints (when EPrints is already installed on the VM)

See: https://github.com/eprints/apache_rhel

Debian

User-space

See: https://github.com/eprints/apache_debian