AGTk 2.4 Installation for Fedora Core 1 & 2

Pre-Installation

If you don't have AGTk-2.x, version 2.1.2 or earlier installed, you can ignore these pre-installation instructions.

Backup your existing identity certificate by exporting it to a file. This is done by starting the VenueClient and performing the following:

"Preferences" -> "View Identity Certificates" -> select certificate -> "Export..."

Quit or kill any AccessGrid python processes.

Rename and backup the existing ~ag/.AccessGrid directory:
mv ~/.AccessGrid ~/.AccessGrid.bak

Remove previous AGTk related RPMS:

  rpm -e gpt globus-accessgrid pyGlobus pyOpenSSL_AG logging wxPython \
      AccessGrid AccessGrid-VenueClient \
      AccessGrid-VenueServer AccessGrid-BridgeServer
  rm -rf /usr/lib/globus

It is important that the old /usr/lib/globus directory is deleted.

The RPMs can be manually downloaded and installed or alternatively the yum package manager which is included with Fedora can be used. Yum provides automatic downloading and installation of packages that you specify and also retrieves any missing dependencies.

To use yum with Fedora Core 1 and 2, add the following lines to /etc/yum.conf :

[ag-fedora-stable]
name=AccessGrid Fedora Core $releasever - Stable
baseurl=http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC$releasever/stable/RPMS/$basearch/

If you need to use a http proxy with yum, set the http_proxy environment variable to the URL of your proxy. e.g. "http://your_proxy:port". See the yum man page for more details.

Then on the command line as root, issue the following:

    yum install AccessGrid

After installation, logout and login to allow the new GNOME/KDE Access Grid menu to take effect.

If you wish to try the Shared Presentation Tool, then you will also need to also install the openoffice.org-pyuno RPM :

    yum install openoffice.org-pyuno

Keeping up-to-date with rhn-applet/up2date

To keep up-to-date with the latest AGTk RPMs by being notified with the rhn-applet (located in the GNOME or KDE panel) when new AGTk RPMs become available, add one of the following lines (depending on which version of Fedora Core you are using) to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources :

    yum ag-fedora-stable http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC1/stable/RPMS/i386
or
    yum ag-fedora-stable http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agn/ag_fedora/FC2/stable/RPMS/i386

The up2date application can then be used to update AGTk RPMs from either the command line or rhn-applet.

Notes

wxGTK 2.4.2 and wxPython 2.4.2.4 RPMs are from Fedora Extras.

Comments and packaging bug-reports can go to Douglas Kosovic <douglask@itee.uq.edu.au>