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Rhaptos 2.0 (Enterprise Rhaptos) Installation log

Chris Rowe
Chris Rowe 3:56am Sat May 15

Following instructions at https://trac.rhaptos.org/trac/rhaptos/wiki/EnterpriseRhaptosQuickInstall?version=9

System - Mac OS X 10.6.2 -- any system that will run a current version of VirtualBox should work

  1. Virtual Box - 3.0.12 r54655 -- Any version that will run a current version of Debian and the VirtualBox Additions should work (often the latest version of Virtual box does not work)
  2. Debian - debian-503-i386-netinst.iso -- Not sure what versions of Debian will work
    1. 256MB ram
    2. 8GB Hard Disk
  3. Select the Automatic Graphic installmadchris
  4. English, United States, American English options (defaults)
  5. host name -> rhaptos -- Anything should work
  6. domain name -> ole.org -- not sure if this matters if you are running it localy
  7. Eastern time -- should not matter
  8. Guided Entire disk, All files on one partition. -- nothing more complex needed for a local test install.
  9. US mirror - ftp.us.debian.org (no proxy)
  10. yes to feedback -- up to you
  11. 'Desktop env' and 'Standard Sys'
  1. if you are using an existing install
    1. apt-get update
    2. apt-get upgrade
  1. log in using the user you created
  2. su -- use the root password you created
  3. Install VirtualBox Additions -- mostly for copy/paste and mousing between host and VM (http://wvarner.blogspot.com/2008/05/installing-virtualbox-guest-additions.html)
    1. apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
    2. m-a prepare
    3. mount /media/cdrom
    4. sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

Rhaptos

  1. Follow instructions at https://trac.rhaptos.org/trac/rhaptos/wiki/EnterpriseRhaptosQuickInstall?version=9
    1. notice the users "Useing a root shell" and "Be sure you are logged in as a normal user (not root)"
  1. Open Terminal
  2. su -- to log in as root
  3. pico /etc/apt/sources.list
  4. Add the following 2 lines
    deb http://rhaptos.org/debian binary/
    deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
  5. cd /srv
  6. chmod a+rwx .
  7. exit -- switch mack to you normal user
  8. echo 'p\n' | svn co https://software.cnx.rice.edu/svn/Releases/rhaptos/buildout
  9. cd buildout
  10. python2.4 bootstrap.py -c empty_ds.cfg
  11. ./bin/buildout -c empty_ds.cfg
  12. ./scripts/application start
  13. ./scripts/oolaunch