AG3 for Debian etch

Overview

The packages available here for an AG3 toolkit installation are made on and for the current Debian stable distribution, etch. They may still need some fine tuning with regard to dependency specifications, but otherwise provide complete AG3 functionality for the etch environment. Please advise of any problems to the contact email address below.

Also available, AG3 for Debian sarge
Also available, AG3 for Ubuntu 7.04 feisty and AG3.1 for Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy

Installation

Firstly, add UQVislab to your list of download repositories by one of the following methods -
1. manually create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uqvislab.list with the following entries:

deb http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debian etch/

deb-src http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debian etch/

or 2. add those lines to your existing /etc/apt/sources.list file
or 3. add those lines in the Installation Media tab of the Settings->Repositories widget of Synaptic
or 4. run this command in a shell:

sudo wget http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debuntu/sources.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uqvislab.list

*** Please Note *** If upgrading from a 3.1-cvs version, please remove it first using either Synaptic or by apt-get:

sudo apt-get remove accessgrid3.1

To complete the installation using Synaptic, open the Synaptic Package Manager and reload the package information (use the Reload button, or select Reload Package Information from the Edit menu). Now search for and install the accessgrid3.1 package. A number of prerequisite packages should also be automatically installed.

Alternatively, the installation may be completed from the command line, with apt-get, by running the commands:

sudo apt-get update

and then

sudo -H apt-get install accessgrid3.1

(Please note the -H option for the sudo command)

Everything should be set to go now - log out, then log in again to find "Access Grid 3" entry in the main menu (assuming Gnome desktop).

Download

The AG3 packages for Debian etch are available from the download directory

Issues

No known issues - everything works here. Please advise of any problems.

There may be a dependency problem with agtwisted-core which was used in an earlier version of accessgrid3.1. Please remove it (a new python-twised-core2.5.0-1ag is now used instead).

An earlier problem caused by the avahi based service discovery/announcement system not running is fixed as follows:

edit /etc/default/avahi-daemon and set AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1 ('twas previously =0 on my system so avahi wasn't ever actually starting). Now run:

sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

On subsequent reboots avahi should start automatically.

Contact

Please send any comments, advice etc., to Chris Willing <c.willing _at_ uq.edu.au>