AccessGrid RPMs (i386 & x86_64 - Fedora Core 3) :
If you have older AccessGrid 3 RPM install, just issue 'yum update
AccessGrid' to update to the latest version.
More comprehensive Access Grid Toolkit install guides for Fedora can be found
here:
http://www.accessgrid.org/node/401 (Allthough for FC6, much is still applicable)
Prerequisites
If you are not using DHCP, you may need to fix your /etc/hosts file, see:
http://www.accessgrid.org/node/420
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72594
Installation Instructions
If you wish to use yum to easily install the AccessGrid RPMs and
automatically retrieve any RPM dependencies, create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-accessgrid3.repo with the following content:
| [accessgrid3] name=AccessGrid Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 |
There are some AGTk RPM dependencies on RPMs from
Fedora Extras. Unlike
later versions of Fedora, Fedora Extras isn't enabled by default. On Fedora Core 3, create a file called
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo
with the following content:
| [extras] name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras |
More information on setting up Fedora Extras can be found on the Fedora
Project's Using Extras page
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.
On the command line as root, issue the following:
yum install AccessGrid
If you wish to use the SharedPresentation
shared application, then you will also need to also install the openoffice.org-pyuno RPM (not available for x86-64 FC3
& FC4) :
yum install openoffice.org-pyuno
If you wish to use the SharedBrowser shared application, then you will also
need to also install wxMozilla:
yum install wxMozilla-python
If you wish to install a version of AccessGrid 2.4 that can be co-installed with 3.0, issue the following:
yum install compat-AccessGrid-2.4
If you have howl (a Zeroconf networking implementation) installed, ensure it's multicast DNS and nifd daemons aren't running and never gets started at boot time, by issuing the following as root:
/sbin/service mDNSResponder stop
/sbin/service nifd stop
/sbin/chkconfig --del mDNSResponder
/sbin/chkconfig --del nifd
Then make sure Apple's Bonjour mDNSResponder multicast DNS daemon (which got installed with the AGTk RPMs) is running and gets started up at boot time, by issuing the following:
/sbin/service mdnsd condrestart
/sbin/chkconfig --add mdnsd
After installation, logout and login to allow the new GNOME/KDE Access Grid menu to take effect.
Building from source code
SRPMs and *-devel RPMs required to build the AccessGrid 3.0.2 RPM can be found under http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/fedora/3/SRPMS/
To build the AccessGrid 3.0.2 RPM, issue something like:
rpmbuild --rebuild AccessGrid-3.0.2-4.fc3.src.rpm
Known Issues
- AccessGrid-3.0.2 RPM can not be co-installed with old AccessGrid 2.3/2.4 RPMs, use the new comp-Accessgrid-2.4 RPM instead.
- SharedPresentation doesn't work in full-screen/slide-show mode with OpenOffice-2.x
- SharedPresentation doesn't work on x86-64 FC3 & x86-64 FC4
Changelog
11 September, 2006
- openoffice.org-pyuno for x86-64 Fedora Core 5 released
- SharePresentation now works on x86-64 FC5
- openoffice.org-pyuno consists of repackaged pyuno files from x86-64 FC6 test1
16 August, 2006
- AccessGrid-3.0.2 RPM released!
15 May, 2006
- AccessGrid-3.0.1 RPM released!
- new compat-AccessGrid-2.4-5 RPM released.
- fix dependencies to use SOAPpy from Fedora Extras
3 May, 2006
- AccessGrid-3.0 RPM released!
- Be sure to update all RPMs if you have been using AG3.0 Beta2
- new compat-AccessGrid-2.4-4 RPM released.
- SharedPresentation and /usr/bin/NodeManagement24 now works
Acknowledgements
Funding through UQVislab and QPSF.Packaging bug-reports can go to Douglas Kosovic <douglask@itee.uq.edu.au>
For other bug reports or feature requests, please use the bugzilla server at http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid.