Table 2.2. Version Compatibility Matrix
| OpenACS Version | 3.2.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.3 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOLserver | 3 | Yes | No | |||||||
| 3.3+ad13 | Maybe | Yes | No | |||||||
| 3.3oacs1 | Maybe | Yes | No | |||||||
| 3.4.4 | No | |||||||||
| 3.4.4oacs1 | Maybe | Yes | No | |||||||
| 3.5.5 | Maybe | Yes | No | |||||||
| 4.0 | Maybe | Yes | ||||||||
| PostgreSQL | 7.0 | Yes | No | |||||||
| 7.2 | Maybe | Yes | No | |||||||
| 7.3.2 - 7.3.x | No | Yes | ||||||||
| 7.4 | No | Yes | ||||||||
| 8.0 | No | Maybe | Yes | |||||||
| Oracle | 8.1.6 | Maybe | Yes | |||||||
| 8.1.7 | Maybe | Yes | ||||||||
| 9i | No | Yes | ||||||||
| 10g | No | Maybe | ||||||||
The OpenACS installation instructions assume the operating system and build environment are installed. - The instructions explain installation of TCL, tDOM, tclwebtest, a Web Server, a Database, a Process Controller, and +
Table 2.2. Version Compatibility Matrix
| OpenACS Version | 3.2.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.3 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOLserver | 3 | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 3.3+ad13 | Maybe | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 3.3oacs1 | Maybe | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 3.4.4 | No | ||||||||||||
| 3.4.4oacs1 | Maybe | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 3.5.5 | Maybe | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 4.0 | Maybe | Yes | |||||||||||
| 4.5 | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| Tcl | 8.4 | Yes | |||||||||||
| 8.5 | Maybe | ||||||||||||
| PostgreSQL | 7.0 | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 7.2 | Maybe | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 7.3.2 - 7.3.x | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 7.4 | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||
| 8.0 | No | Maybe | Yes | ||||||||||
| 8.1 | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| 8.2 | No | CVS version only | Yes | ||||||||||
| 8.3 | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| Oracle | 8.1.6 | Maybe | Yes | Maybe | |||||||||
| 8.1.7 | Maybe | Yes | Maybe | ||||||||||
| 9i | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| 10g | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| 11g | No | Maybe | |||||||||||
The OpenACS installation instructions assume the operating system and build environment are installed. + The instructions explain installation of TCL, Tcllib, tDOM, tclwebtest, a Web Server, a Database, a Process Controller, and Source Control software. The following external links are for reference only. -
OpenACS 5.4.2. The OpenACS tarball comprises the core packages and +
OpenACS 5.5.0. The OpenACS tarball comprises the core packages and many useful additional packages. This includes a full set of documentation. The tarball works with both PostgreSQL and Oracle. Some scripts require bash shell.
Operating System. OpenACS is designed for a Unix-like system. It is
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
shell, you will need to substitute your shell's
conventions for setting environment variables when
appropriate, and install bash to work with the scripts. Substitute fetch when the instructions suggest you use
- wget to download software.
Mac OS X. the section called “OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X”
Windows/VMWare. the section called “OpenACS Installation Guide for Windows2000” The only
+ wget to download software.
Mac OS X. the section called “OpenACS Installation Guide for Mac OS X”
Windows/VMWare. ??? The only way to run OpenACS on Windows is through the VMWare emulator. (Please let me know if you have OpenACS running directly in Windows.)
Build Environment. The Reference Platform installation compiles most programs from @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ distributions may not be thread safe.
TCL 8.4.x development headers and libraries, OPTIONAL. The site-wide-search service, OpenFTS, requires these to
compile. (Debian users: apt-get install
tcl8.4-dev). You need this
- to install OpenFTS.
tDOM, REQUIRED. OpenACS 5.4.2 stores + to install OpenFTS.
Tcllib, REQUIRED. + OpenACS 5.5.0 uses those Tcl extensions to send e-mail out, among others. +
tDOM, REQUIRED. OpenACS 5.5.0 stores queries in XML files, so we use an AOLserver module called tDOM to parse these files. (This replaces libxml2, which was used prior to 4.6.4.)
tclwebtest, OPTIONAL. tclwebtest is a tool for testing web interfaces via tcl scripts.
Web Server. The web server handles incoming HTTP requests, provides @@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ errors. OpenACS uses AOLserver; some people have had success running Apache with mod_nsd.
AOLserver 4.x, REQUIRED. Provides the base HTTP server
Mat Kovach is graciously maintaining an AOLserver distribution that - includes all the patches and modules needed to run OpenACS 5.4.2. These + includes all the patches and modules needed to run OpenACS 5.5.0. These instructions will describe how to install using his source distribution. He also has binaries for SuSE 7.3 and OpenBSD 2.8 (and perhaps more to come), currently located at uptime.openacs.org.