[ome-devel] OME installation difficulties

[Josh Moore]

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Ilya Goldberg wrote:
> That's nice.  So debian decides to call the Apache user 'www-data'.  
> Apparently postgres is none too happy about this user name, and who 
> would blame it really?

Something else is going on here. Need more info to look into it.


> Just as a note, I know a lot of people like debian, and its certainly a 
> favorite among linux-heads.
> The problem is that its not a favorite among most of the people who 
> would be using ome (instead of developing for it).  If developers use 
> OSes that are different from those used by our users, then we should 
> expect our users to have problems (check!).

Disagree. Need to differentiate between users and the sysadmins.
Sysadmins, especially for clusters, at least over here, are fairly
serious debian users. If you forsee ome being in a server room, then
debian is a very serious possibility. With Ubuntu, the probability is
also increasing on the desktop.

http://distrowatch.com :

1 month:
Rank  	Distribution  	H.P.D*
1 	Ubuntu 	2238<
2 	Mandriva 	1454<
3 	SUSE 	1055<
4 	MEPIS 	995<
5 	Fedora 	915

12 month:
Rank  	Distribution  	H.P.D*
1 	Ubuntu 	1810<
2 	Mandriva 	1548<
3 	Fedora 	1334=
4 	MEPIS 	1152<
5 	SUSE 	1149


> My suggestion for this case would be to fix the installer so that it 
> works properly (for you and for other people who might want to use 
> debian) by escaping the (rather stupidly named, I should say) apache 
> user with quotes.

As I said, let's look into this first. I've installed on half a dozen
debian boxes since 2.2 and never seen this.

> As far as long-term debian support, someone needs to "own" support for 
> this OS, which basically means maintaining the installer, the 
> installation notes, etc.  It can't be my group because we don't use it. 
>  Until we have an owner for debian support, then its status by 
> definition remains "Unofficial".
> I would be happy to help someone fix this if that someone volunteers to 
> be the debian maintainer.
> So, volunteers?


Perhaps it wasn't a full volunteering but
http://bugs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/show_bug.cgi?id=513#c0
I simply don't have the hardware resources to do it.

Best wishes,
 Josh
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