Difference between revisions of "Installing EPrints 3 on Ubuntu 6.10"

Revision as of 00:00, 14 February 2007

This instructions assume a working Ubuntu 6.10 installation (or close approximation thereof).

Install Apache and mod_perl:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-perl

Install MySQL:

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Install EPrints perl dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl libunicode-string-perl \
  libterm-readkey-perl libmime-lite-perl libdbd-mysql-perl

Install Readonly (you will need to configure CPAN if not already done):

$ sudo cpan install Readonly

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

$ mysqladmin -u root password <new password>

$ sudo adduser --system --home /opt/eprints3 --group eprints

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

$ sudo adduser www-data 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

Edit the Apache configuration file:

$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

And add this line to the end of apache2.conf:

Include /opt/eprints3/cfg/apache.conf

$ 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

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

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

@@ Line 30: / Line 30: @@
   $ mysqladmin -u root password <new password>
-== Create an 'eprints' user ==
+== Create an 'eprints' system user ==
+  $ sudo adduser --system --home /opt/eprints3 --group eprints
-  System * Administration * Users and Groups
-Add a new user with username 'eprints' and change the Home directory (under Advanced) to '/opt/eprints3'.
 Add the 'www-data' user to the 'eprints' group:
-  $ sudo usermod -a -G eprints www-data
+  $ sudo adduser www-data eprints
 == Install EPrints ==