+Build Environment. The Reference
+Platform installation compiles most programs from source code.
-glibc 2.2 or newer, REQUIRED. You need
-recent versions of these libraries for Oracle to work properly. For
-Unicode support, you need glibc 2.2 or newer. This should be
-included in your operating system distribution.
+glibc 2.2 or newer, REQUIRED. You
+need recent versions of these libraries for Oracle to work
+properly. For Unicode support, you need glibc 2.2 or newer. This
+should be included in your operating system distribution.
GNU Make
-3.76.1 or newer, REQUIRED. PostgreSQL and AOLserver
-require gmake to compile. Note that on most linux distributions,
-GNU Make is simply named make
-and there is no gmake, whereas
-on BSD distributions, make and
-gmake are different --use
-gmake.
make and there is no gmake, whereas on BSD distributions,
+make and gmake are different --use gmake.
-
Tcl 8.5.x.
-Tcl 8.5.x, REQUIRED. OpenACS is written in
-Tcl, an interpreted language. A threaded version of the Tcl
-interpreter must be installed for OpenACS to work. The Tcl
+Tcl 8.5.x, REQUIRED. OpenACS is
+written in Tcl, an interpreted language. A threaded version of the
+Tcl interpreter must be installed for OpenACS to work. The Tcl
interpreter that is included in most standard distributions may not
be thread safe.
Tcl 8.5.x development headers and libraries,
-OPTIONAL. The site-wide-search service, OpenFTS,
-requires these to compile. (Debian users: apt-get install tcl8.5-dev). You need this
+OPTIONAL. The site-wide-search service,
+OpenFTS, requires these to compile. (Debian users: apt-get install tcl8.5-dev). You need this
to install OpenFTS.
-
-Tcllib, REQUIRED. OpenACS 5.9.0
-uses those Tcl extensions to send e-mail out, among others.
+Tcllib, REQUIRED. OpenACS
+5.9.0 uses those Tcl extensions to send e-mail out, among
+others.
-
-tDOM, REQUIRED. OpenACS 5.9.0 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.)
+tDOM, REQUIRED. OpenACS 5.9.0
+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.
+tclwebtest,
+OPTIONAL. tclwebtest is a tool for testing web
+interfaces via Tcl scripts.
-
Web Server. The web server handles
@@ -171,8 +172,8 @@
mod_nsd.
Mat Kovach is graciously maintaining an AOLserver distribution
that includes all the patches and modules needed to run OpenACS
5.9.0. These instructions will describe how to install using his
@@ -202,118 +203,125 @@
ns_pam 0.1 or newer,
-OPTIONAL. Provides PAM capabilities for AOLserver.
-You need this if you want OpenACS users to authenticate through a
-PAM module (such as RADIUS).
+OPTIONAL. Provides PAM capabilities for
+AOLserver. You need this if you want OpenACS users to authenticate
+through a PAM module (such as RADIUS).
-
-pam_radius 1.3.16, OPTIONAL. Provides
-RADIUS capabilities for PAM. You need this if you want to use
-RADIUS authentication via PAM in OpenACS.
+pam_radius 1.3.16,
+OPTIONAL. Provides RADIUS capabilities for
+PAM. You need this if you want to use RADIUS authentication via PAM
+in OpenACS.
-
-ns_ldap 0.r8, OPTIONAL. Provides
-LDAP capabilities for AOLserver. You need this if you want to use
-LDAP authentication in OpenACS.
+ns_ldap 0.r8,
+OPTIONAL. Provides LDAP capabilities for
+AOLserver. You need this if you want to use LDAP authentication in
+OpenACS.
-
-OpenFTS Tcl 0.3.2, OPTIONAL. Adds
-full-text-search to PostgreSQL and includes a driver for AOLserver.
-You need this if you want users to be able to search for any text
-on your site. For postgres 7.4.x and higher, full text search is
-also available via tsearch2.
+OpenFTS Tcl 0.3.2,
+OPTIONAL. Adds full-text-search to PostgreSQL
+and includes a driver for AOLserver. You need this if you want
+users to be able to search for any text on your site. For postgres
+7.4.x and higher, full text search is also available via
+tsearch2.
Analog 5.32 or newer,
-OPTIONAL. This program examines web server request
-logs, looks up DNS values, and produces a report. You need this if
-you want to see how much traffic your site is getting.
+OPTIONAL. This program examines web server
+request logs, looks up DNS values, and produces a report. You need
+this if you want to see how much traffic your site is getting.
Balance 3.11 or newer,
-OPTIONAL. "Balance is a simple but powerful
-generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover
-mechanisms." You need this or something equivalent if you are
-running a high-availability production site and do not have an
-external load balancing system.
-
+OPTIONAL. "Balance is a simple but
+powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and
+failover mechanisms." You need this or something equivalent if
+you are running a high-availability production site and do not have
+an external load balancing system.
-
-Database. The data on your site (for
-example, usernames and passwords, calendar entries, and notes) is
-stored in the database. OpenACS separates the database with an
+Database. The data on your site
+(for example, usernames and passwords, calendar entries, and notes)
+is stored in the database. OpenACS separates the database with an
abstraction layer, which means that several different databases all
function identically. While you can run the core OpenACS on any
supported database, not all contributed packages support all
databases.
Oracle 8.1.7 (Either this or PostgreSQL is
-REQUIRED). You can register and download Oracle from
-Oracle TechNet. You need this if you want to use
-an Oracle database.
+REQUIRED). You can register and download
+Oracle from Oracle
+TechNet. You need this if you want to use an Oracle
+database.
PostgreSQL 7.4.x (Either this or Oracle is
REQUIRED). You need this if you want to use a
PostgreSQL database.
-
-Process Controller. This is software that
-initiates other software, and restarts that software if it fails.
-On Linux, we recommend using Daemontools to control AOLserver and
-qmail.
-
+Process Controller. This is
+software that initiates other software, and restarts that software
+if it fails. On Linux, we recommend using Daemontools to control
+AOLserver and qmail.
-
-Daemontools 0.76, OPTIONAL. You need this
-if you want AOLserver and qmail to run "supervised,"
-meaning that they are monitored and automatically restarted if they
-fail. An alternative would be to run the services from inittab.
+Daemontools 0.76, OPTIONAL. You
+need this if you want AOLserver and qmail to run
+"supervised," meaning that they are monitored and
+automatically restarted if they fail. An alternative would be to
+run the services from inittab.
-
-Mail Transport Agent. A Mail Transport
-Agent is a program that handles all incoming and outgoing mail. The
-Reference Platform uses Qmail; any MTA that provides a sendmail
-wrapper (that is, that can be invoked by calling the sendmail
-program with the same variables that sendmail expects) can be
-used.
+Mail Transport Agent. A Mail
+Transport Agent is a program that handles all incoming and outgoing
+mail. The Reference Platform uses Qmail; any MTA that provides a
+sendmail wrapper (that is, that can be invoked by calling the
+sendmail program with the same variables that sendmail expects) can
+be used.
Netqmail 1.04,
OPTIONAL. You need this (or a different Mail
Transport Agent) if you want your webserver to send and receive
email.
-ucspi-tcp 0.88, OPTIONAL. This program
-listens for incoming TCP connections and hands them to a program.
-We use it instead of inetd, which is insecure. You need this if you
-are running qmail.
-DocBook, OPTIONAL. (docbook-xml v4.4,
-docbook-xsl v1.56, libxslt 1.0.21, xsltproc 1.0.21). You need this
-to write or edit documentation.
-
+DocBook, OPTIONAL. (docbook-xml
+v4.4, docbook-xsl v1.56, libxslt 1.0.21, xsltproc 1.0.21). You need
+this to write or edit documentation.
-
-Source Control. A Source Control system
-keeps track of all of the old versions of your files. It lets you
-recover old files, compare versions of file, and identify specific
-versions of files. You can use any source control system; the
-Reference Platform and the OpenACS.org repository (where you can
-get patched and development code in between releases) use cvs.
+Source Control. A Source Control
+system keeps track of all of the old versions of your files. It
+lets you recover old files, compare versions of file, and identify
+specific versions of files. You can use any source control system;
+the Reference Platform and the OpenACS.org repository (where you
+can get patched and development code in between releases) use
+cvs.
-cvs 1.11.18, OPTIONAL. cvs is included in
-most unix distributions. You need this if you want to track old
-versions of your files, do controlled deployment of code from
-development to production, or get or contribute development code
-from openacs.org.
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