[ckan-dev] Installation problems on RHEL

Mon Jun 24 15:27:19 UTC 2013

Hi Hildegard,

There isn't a lot of change. What I've done is make the instructions as
consistent as I can with our normal Ubuntu source install. Thanks for the
comments. I'll add updates to the instructions as soon as I can find time.

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On 24 June 2013 19:16, Hildegard Gerlach <hildegard.gerlach at jrc.ec.europa.eu
> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> I confronted the new instructions with the old ones
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/How-to-Install-CKAN-2.0-on-CentOS-6.3
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/How-to-install-ckan-2.0-on-centos-6.3-new
>
> I didn't see many differences besides the different installation locations.
>
> I just wanted to make 2 comments:
> In Part 4 the configuration file production.ini is created but then
> referenced as development.ini
>
> paster make-config ckan /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
>
> Edit the development.ini file in a text editor, changing the following
> options:
>
> and there is still the same comment about the* version of Solr* in part
> 4:
>
> CKAN can not use the latest version of Apache SOLR and requires version
> 1.4.1.
>
> Have a look at this thread
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2013-June/005054.html
> where Adrià says that CKAN should work perfectly  with latest versions of
> Solr.
>
> >* CKAN can not use the latest version of Apache SOLR and requires version*>* 1.4.1.*I'm not sure about the reason of this statement (we don't maintain the
> install pages on the wiki). Perhaps is an issue with Red Hat but CKAN
> should work perfectly fine with latest versions of Solr (it does on
> Ubuntu)
>
>  Maybe this issue should be cleared.
>
> Thanks
>
> Hilde
>
>
>
> On 20/06/2013 03:20, Nigel Babu wrote:
>
> Thank you Andrew!
>
> I'll update the install instructions, I'm really glad you got CKAN working.
>
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> On 19 June 2013 01:58, Koebrick, Andrew (MNIT) <
> andrew.koebrick at state.mn.us> wrote:
>
>>  Nigel,
>>
>>
>> I succeeded in getting CKAN 2.0 installed using your new instructions and
>> a fresh instance of RHEL 6.  So, no need to try and sleuth out what went
>> wrong (as described in the prior emails).  I did have two problem with the
>> instructions, which I will document here in case you want to update the
>> docs:
>>
>> 1)      In Section 2 this step did not work for me:
>>
>> “pip install –ignore-installed –e git+
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckan.git@ckan-2.0#egg=ckan”
>>
>> Not sure if it was local firewall issues, or what.  But I ended up having
>> to download the .zip file locally and then point the pip install to the
>> directory rather than the web version.
>>
>> 2)      In section 6, I think this command:
>> “paster db init –c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini”
>> Needs to be:
>> “paster plugin=ckan db init /etc/decault/production.ini”
>>
>>
>>
>> Now on to trying to get the geospatial plugin the datastore functional.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for the assistance and the product.  I look forward to
>> getting it into production.
>>
>>
>>
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