[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: SuSE installation

[Martin Siegert]

Hi Guy, Matthew,

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:01:46PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote:

> I will now try to install LON-CAPA-1.2 on this machine. Stay tuned.

Ok. Here is the contents of the WARNINGS file after running UPDATE:

**** ERROR **** CVS source file does not exist: ../../loncom/hosts.tab and neither does target: /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
**** ERROR **** CVS source file does not exist: ../../loncom/domain.tab and neither does target: /home/httpd/lonTabs/domain.tab
**** ERROR **** httpd.conf has an overlapping definition of ScriptAlias (it is incorrectly set to "/srv/www/cgi-bin/").
This conflicts with loncapa_apache.conf.
**** ERROR **** httpd.conf has an overlapping definition of DocumentRoot (it is incorrectly set to "/srv/www/htdocs").
This conflicts with loncapa_apache.conf.

Updating access count storage.  This can take quite a while.
Getting directory listing.
Updating 0 files.  Each '.' represents 20 files processed.

Completed!

Updating yum and MySQL configuration files
**** WARNING: gnuplot-3.7.1-5 does not appear to be installed.
**** WARNING: LON-CAPA-systemperl does not appear to be installed.
**** WARNING: perl-suidperl does not appear to be installed.
**** WARNING: ^bzip2-libs does not appear to be installed.
Checking to be sure the Network Time Protocol is running properly.
For more information on ntpd please see http://www.ntp.org/
ntp is not installed.
**** ERROR **** Missing /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock


The first two errors appear to be normal: those two files could not
possibly exist since LON-CAPA had never been installed on that machine
(I am wondering though, why this is marked as an ERROR rather than a
"remark").

The next two errors refer to SuSE's default location of the httpd
files. I am assuming that editing /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and setting

DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html"

and

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/"

should solve this - correct? anything else that must be changed in
httpd.conf?

The 4 WARNING's I believe can all be ignored:
- gnuplot-4.0.0 is installed
- LON-CAPA-systemperl should not be required
- suidperl is part of perl
- bzip2 libraries are in bzip2 (remark: bzip2-libs was not listed as a
  prerequisite).

I am wondering why I got those warnings: distprobe sets the distribution
to fedora2 (and that seemed to work because the Fedora version of
CHECKRPMS got installed). But there must be something else that sets
the distro (I am assuming that those WARNINGs should only be issued on
a RH7.3 system not on Fedora 2).

The ntp error can be ignored as well (the ntp package is called xntp on
SuSE; probably for historic reasons; arrgh).

The final Mysql ERROR: when I ran UPDATE I did not have a mysqld running.
I actually had not configured mysql in any way.
Can you please remind me what I have to do to set up mysql properly?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin