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There are now debian packages for all OpenACS requirements, and OpenACS (.LRN) itself.

See The debian wiki page

The rest of this page is superseded by the debian wiki page.

You can also use the OpenACSDebianInstallGuide quicksheet.

Install tcl 8.4

Install PostgreSQL 8.2

(from ubuntu repository or debian etch) for PG 8.2 I had to add this line to the /etc/apt/sources.list (under debian etch) 

Install with apt

Config the postgresql 8.x

Create the database

Shall the new user be allowed to create
    databases? (y/n) y
  Shall the new user be allowed to create
    more new users? (y/n) y
  CREATE USER

Install AOLserver

1. Add the next lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
   
   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
   deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
   deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
   
2. Update
   
   apt-get update
   
   # If you have any trouble with gpg keys, then you must read: http://www.davidam.com/debian/debian-gpg
   
   
3. Install wit apt
   

   apt-get install -t unstable aolserver4 aolserver4-nscache aolserver4-nsopenssl aolserver4-nspostgres aolserver4-nssha1 aolserver4-dev aolserver4-doc daemontools-installer cvs

   *note: unpack the https.gz from aolserver4-nsopenssl and copy it over to the tcl directory of aolserver4, if not the api with https such as ns_httpspost will not be available.

   https.gz is normally found at /usr/share/doc/aolserver4-nsopenssl/examples/

   The tcl directory for aolserver4 is normally found at /usr/lib/aolserver4/modules/tcl/
    

4. Install tdom from cvs
   # Sometimes cvs.tdom.org is down, if you have problems you can download with
   wget http://cognovis.de/file-storage/view/aolserver45.tar.bz2
   cd /usr/lib/aolserver4
   sudo ln -s /usr/include/aolserver4 include
   mkdir /usr/local/src/aolserver4
   cd /usr/local/src/aolserver4
   sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tdom.org:/usr/local/pubcvs co tdom
   cd tdom/unix
   ../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc --with-aolserver=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
   sudo make install
   
5. Install XOTcl
   
   cd /usr/local/src
   sudo wget http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xotcl-1.6.1.tar.gz
   sudo tar xvfz xotcl-1.6.1.tar.gz
   cd xotcl-1.6.1/
   export CC=gcc
   sudo ./configure --enable-threads --enable-symbols --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --exec-prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4 --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
   sudo make
   sudo make install-aol
6. Install TclLib
   
   cd ~
   sudo wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcllib/tcllib-1.10.tar.gz
   sudo tar xvzf tcllib-1.10.tar.bz2
   cd tcllib-1.10
   sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4
   sudo make install
   

Download and config OpenACS 5.4

1. Create the directory where we can install OpenACS
   
   adduser service
   su - service
   mkdir aolserver
   cd aolserver
2. Copy the two config files aolserver.nsadmin and nsadmin.tcl there:
   
   wget http://www.davidam.com/debian/aolserver.nsadmin
   wget http://www.davidam.com/debian/nsadmin.tcl
3. Change nsadmin to service
   mv aolserver.nsadmin aolserver.service
   mv nsadmin.tcl service.tcl
   
   sed -i "s/nsadmin/service/g" aolserver.service service.tcl
   
4. Download OpenACS from cvs
   cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co -r oacs-5-4 openacs-4
   mv openacs-4 service
   chmod 774 aolserver.service
   

    # create log directory (if needed)

   mkdir service/log
5. Start AOLserver
   
   ./aolserver.service start
   Some minutes after that, it must be runing on http://localhost:8000

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