EPrints 3.5.0 Beta 1
This page provides information about the first beta release for EPrints 3.5.0 on Wednesday 18th June 2025. There will be further beta releases and one or more release candidates before the first official release of EPrints 3.5.0.
== Installation Instructions
RHEL / Rocky Linux 9
1. Install MariaDB
yum install mariadb-server mariadb mariadb-devel
2. Enable MySQL or MariaDB as appropriate
systemctl enable --now mariadb
3. Install prerequite packages and tools (some extra packages may be required to build CPAN packages later on)
yum install epel-release git libxml2 libxslt httpd mod_perl perl-DBD-MySQL tetex-latex wget gzip tar ImageMagick elinks poppler-utils chkconfig unzip cpan python3-html2text expat-devel libxslt-devel
4. Add the eprints user
adduser eprints
5. Add the eprints user to the apache group and vice-versa
usermod -a -G eprints apache usermod -a -G apache eprints
6. For now disable SELinux. (If you want to make this permanent you will need to configure /etc/selinux/config and change SELINUX=permissive</code). An SELinux policy for EPrints will be provided with the full release of EPrints 3.5.0.
setenforce 0
7. Make a directory to checkout EPrints and set appropriate permissions:
mkdir /opt/eprints3
chown eprints:eprints /opt/eprints3
chmod 2775 /opt/eprints3
8. Become the eprints user and clone EPrints 3.5 recursively and checkout v3.5.0-beta-1
su eprints
cd /opt/eprints3
git clone https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.5.git --recurse-submodules .
git checkout v3.5.0-beta-1
9. Become the root user again and install CPAN modules. (Answer 'y' if prompted whilst running cpan_modules.pl).
su root
/opt/eprints3/cpan_modules.pl
10. ...
/opt/eprints3/cpan_modules.pl
- Answer 'y' to any prompts
