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This is a final release of OpenACS 4.6. This release has been subjected to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts.
Please report bugs using our Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website. The latest information on installing this release under Oracle 8.1.7 or PostgreSQL 7.2.* can be found there as well. Currently the toolkit will not install under Oracle 9i due to Oracle having made "delete" an illegal name for PL/SQL procedures and functions.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for Installing on Unix/Linux. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 4.6, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.6 at this moment.
If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition and OpenACS 4.6 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for 'sync' to find the code.
Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'.
If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the installation documentation in the section, Set Up OpenFTS. As with the Oracle version, there are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature working.
OpenMSG has organized the OpenACS 4.6 testing process with test servers provided by Hub.org. Visit the acceptance test server to see the current status of various packages. This may not be a permanent link. If it's not working, do a search of the OpenACS forums.