Installation Notes : AOLServer 4.5

I compiled and installed a copy of Aolserver 4.5 with Postgresql and OpenACS successfully last June 2006 when it was released. Now I am trying to do it again and found myself stuck and unable to recall all the things I did during my last installation. Luckily the OpenACS forums is littered with people asking questions about setting up AOLServer 4.5.

Here's my step by step on a Suse 10.1 virtual machine with Postgres 7.4.13 already installed.

1) Login as root

2) Download and install tcl

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.13-src.tar.gz
tar xfz tcl8.4.13-src.tar.gz
cd tcl8.4.13/unix
./configure --enable-threads
make install

3) Download, apply ns_conn patch for background delivery and compile AOLServer

mkdir /usr/local/aolserver45
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aolserver/aolserver-4.5.0-src.tar.gz
wget http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/aolserver45-nsd-conn.patch
tar xfz aolserver-4.5.0-src.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/src/aolserver-4.5.0
patch -p0 < ../aolserver45-nsd-conn.patch
/usr/local/bin/tclsh nsconfig.tcl -install /usr/local/aolserver45
make install 

4) Check out and compile ns_postgres

cd /usr/local/src/aolserver-4.5.0
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@aolserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nspostgres
cd nspostgres
make AOLSERVER=/usr/local/aolserver45 POSTGRES=/usr/local/pgsql ACS=1 install

5) Check out and compile ns_cache

cd /usr/local/src/aolserver-4.5.0
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@aolserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nscache
cd nscache
make install

6) Check out and compile ns_ssha1

cd /usr/local/src/aolserver-4.5.0
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@aolserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nssha1
cd nssha1
make install

7) Download and install TDOM

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.tdom.org/files/tDOM-0.8.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz tDOM-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd tDOM-0.8.0/unix

Uncomment and edit a line in CONFIG to match your setup

../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc
     --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver45 --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib

Run the config script and make install

sh CONFIG
make install

8) Download and install xotcl

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xotcl-1.5.2.tar.gz
tar xfz xotcl-1.5.2.tar.gz
cd xotcl-1.5.2
./configure --enable-threads --enable-symbols               --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver               --exec_prefix=/usr/local/aolserver               --with-tcl=/usr/src/tcl8.4.13/unix
make
make install-aol

9) Download and install libthread

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/thread2.6.5.tar.gz
tar xfz thread2.6.5.tar.gz
cd threads2.6.5/unix

Uncomment and edit a line in CONFIG to match your setup

../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc
     --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver45 --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib

Run the config script and make install

sh CONFIG
make install

10) Download and uncompress tcllib from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/

cd /usr/local/src
tar -xzvf tcllib-1.9.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver45/ --enable-threads --enable-symbols --enable-gcc --enable-shared
tclsh8.4 installer.tcl -no-wait -no-gui -no-examples -pkg-path /usr/local/aolserver45/lib -no-apps

References :

http://www.openacs.org/doc/current/aolserver4.html
http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=481781
http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=457933
http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=487137