installation instructions II

Ideally this would include “full” installation instructions.
It can also be used as a place to talk about building packages for popular distros.
For the moment you may want to look at installation-instructions instead.

The following is heavily derivative from
http://mclear.co.uk/2010/03/10/installing-etherpad-on-debian/
but the goal is to make it comprehensive eventually!

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I’m going to run through an installation on Fedora, but
dependencies should be similarly available platform to
platform.

The main dependencies are:

• Java 1.6 (tested with Sun’s 1.6.0_10, atm java-1.6.0-openjdk does NOT work)
• Scala 2.7 (tested with 2.7.4)
• MySQL Server 5.1 (tested with 5.1.41)
• mysql-connector-java (tested with 5.1.0)

Fedora	Ubuntu	Mac OS X
download and install java from sun	apt-get install …	…
yum install scala	apt-get install …	…
yum install mysql-server	apt-get install …	…
yum install mysql-connector-java	apt-get install …	…
yum install git	apt-get install …	…

Note: In order to set up mysql on Fedora you may want to
look at some instructions, e.g.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/install_apache.htm

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Adding this to the end of /etc/profile (Note that on Fedora some of the
version numbers are different from the available versions of things on Ubuntu;
check your local distro.)

umask 022
export PATH
export JAVA_HOME=“/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_19”
export SCALA_HOME=“/usr/share/java”
export JAVA=“/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_19/bin/java”
export SCALA=“/usr/bin/scala”
export PATH=“/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_19/bin:$PATH”
export MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR=“/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java-5.1.8.jar”
export JAVA_HOME SCALA_HOME JAVA SCALA MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR PATH

A quick and dirty compatibility fix:

ln -s /usr/share/java/lib/scala/scala-library.jar /usr/share/java/lib/scala-library.jar

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git clone http://github.com/ether/pad.git
mv pad /usr/local/etherpad

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nano /usr/local/etherpad/etherpad/src/etherpad/globals.js

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mysql -u root -p

create database etherpad;

grant all privileges on etherpad.* to ’etherpad’@’localhost’ identified by ‘make_up_a_clever_password’

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cd /usr/local/etherpad/etherpad/
bin/rebuildjar.sh

bin/run-local.sh

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Trouble shooting:

If you see

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap

when you try to run the web server, it can be resolved by decreasing the size of the needed heap. Edit bin/run-local.sh and change the variable MXRAM from 1G to something smaller (256m should do the trick), then try running bin/run-local.sh again.

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Browse to:
http://localhost:9000