[ome-users] Update Installation problems - Ubuntu

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Matthias,

Sorry, I did not realize before that you were trying to install OME
2.4.0, rather than 2.6.0rc3. Many, many problems have been fixed since
2.4.0 and I would strongly suggest you give 2.6.0rc3 a try instead,
since the instructions I wrote for Ubuntu were tested with 2.6.0rc3,
not 2.4.0.

-Curtis

On 9/20/06, Matthias Pigerl <matthias.pigerl at sco-lifescience.de> wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> After some time I would like to give you a quick update of all my
> installation problems with Ubuntu and OME.
> (Kernel 2.6.12 - perl 5.8.7, mod_perl v 2.0.2 postgreSQL v.8.0.3 Apache2
> - OME 2.4.0)
>
> But still I'm not very happy - I'm going to try the OME development
> versions from cvs or an other Linux distribution. Because with the
> combination above there are too many problems.
>
> OK Step by Step:
> If s.o. wants to start with the instructions at
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/install/debian.html you had to activate
> the unsecured and experimental repositories at the package manager
> (e.g., apt or synaptic). Otherwise the libraries aren't available. There
> was also an package (libapache2-mod-perl2-doc) my system couldn't
> locate. But I think this package is not so important for OME. :-) So
> forget about it.
>
> Then I started install.pl and I run into problems problems problems. :-)
>
> First of all there where some compiler problems and I played a little
> bit. I cann't remember what I did .. checked some makefiles. - whatever
> - at least the compiler part of install.pl worked .
>
> Then - next problem the apache configuration failled. Ok - I could do it
> manually. The main configuration file at Ubuntu is
> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ant NOT httpd.conf - Very strange I know. So I
> put an Include pathToOME/conf/httpd.conf.ome at the bottom of
> apache2.conf. Then I changed at all OME/conf/*.conf files the line
> PerlInitHandler Apache::Reload to PerlInitHandler Apache2::Reload and I
> checked the rest of the pathes like PerlSetEnv Path and Alias - Now
> Apache configuration was fine.
>
> Next problem postgresql.  At Ubuntu the apache user is www-data and "-"
> dosn't like postgresql (I read some discussions about this topic in the
> mail archive. Maybe it's fixed in the development version.) But to fix
> it is not so difficult. I changed the line
> my $sql = "CREATE USER $username"; at file
> installationPATH/src/perl2/OME/Database/PostgresDelegate.pm to
> my $sql = "CREATE USER \"$username\"";    --- and the install.pl
> finished the installation perfectly.
>
> But this doesn't mean that I could login now. There was still a
> configuration problem with postgresSQL. Install.pl runs under root - the
> apache server not. So I had to change the "Connections and
> authentification" settings of postgressql.conf.
> After this finally I could login using the webinterface. But I'm still
> not very happy. Image import dosn't work. An import process is started,
> I get a PID. But then this process freezes. I waited more than 2 hours
> of an import of one TIFF (same with jpeg and lsm)
> At the end I had to kill the processes.
> The Java Client also doesn't work. Error at apache.log "...can't locate
> Apache2.pm in @INC(..."
> What is @INC? Apache2.pm is available put not in the path searched by
> @INC parameter.
>
> That's all! Have a nice day wherever you are. Today I'll go to the
> Oktoberfest in Munich - so the world is not so bad :-))
>
> Cu Matthias
>
>
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