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Install an Operating System

+ by Vinod Kurup
+ OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, but may be edited + by OpenACS documentation staff. +

We won't provide detailed instructions to install an operating system since there are so many valid choices available and each OS has their own installation procedures. -

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Other OpenACS Guides

Members of the OpenACS community use a variety of UNIX, Linux, BSD and even Windows systems. The remainder of this guide will be specific to Linux. Users of other OS's may find some helpful information here, but we recommend that you instead use one of these OS specific guides to install OpenACS 4.5. -

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+ This was written for ACS and has not yet + been updated for OpenACS. (Note: AOLServer is no longer + supporting Windows - it may be possible to run AOLServer under + Cygwin, but I haven't + seen any success reports yet). Another alternative is to use John + Sequeira's Oasis + VM, which is basically a fully working OpenACS 4.5 + system that you load into VMware. +

Linux Information

I'm currently using Debian GNU/Linux, so this guide may show that bias. Installation on any Linux distribution should be similar and we'll try to point out differences where they exist. -

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When you do install your system, be sure to set up enough swap space - at least 400 MB for Oracle, less for PostgreSQL. A rule of thumb is to set aside a swap partition which is twice your RAM size. -

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bash Bash is the standard Linux shell. + (2.4.16) kernels.
bash Bash is the standard Linux shell. We assume you are using bash for these instructions. If you're not using bash, then you will need to substitute your shell's conventions for setting environment variables when appropriate. -
glib 2.1 (or greater)You need recent versions of - these libraries for Oracle to work properly.
perl (and perl-suid) +
glib 2.1 (or greater)You need recent versions of + these libraries for Oracle to work properly.
perl (and perl-suid) A few parts of the ACS require perl to work correctly. (Debian users: apt-get install - perl-suid)
GNU Make (3.76.1 or better) + perl-suid)
GNU Make (3.76.1 or better) PostgreSQL and AOLServer require gmake to compile. Note that on some linux distributions, GNU Make is simply named make and there is no gmake, whereas on BSD distributions, make and gmake are different. -
Tcl 8.3 development package (headers, libraries) +
Tcl 8.3 development package (headers, libraries) The site-wide-search service, OpenFTS, requires these to compile. (Debian users: apt-get install tcl8.3-dev) -
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  • Official + Debian Guide

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    • Security Information

    Once you get your OS installed, it's imperative that you secure your installation. As Jon Griffin repeatedly warns us, "No distribution is secure out of the box." Again, this topic is too big to cover properly here, so see these links. -

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