RHEL AGTk RPMs

AccessGrid RPMs (i386 & x86_64 - RHEL 5 and compatible spinoffs such as CentOS or Scientific Linux) :

http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/rhel/

If you currently 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 which are applicable to RHEL/CentOS can be found here:
http://www.accessgrid.org/node/879 (Fedora 8)
http://www.accessgrid.org/node/401 (FC6)

Prerequisites

If you are not using DHCP, you may need to fix your /etc/hosts file, see:
http://www.accessgrid.org/node/885
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/accessgrid3.repo with the following content:

[accessgrid3]
name=AccessGrid - $basearch
baseurl=http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

There are some AGTk RPM dependencies on RPMs from Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). To install EPEL, as root issue the following:

    rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

EPEL alternative Some people may prefer an alternative to the EPEL yum repository, as RHEL 5 is based on Fedora Core 6, the Fedora Extras 6 yum repository could be used.

To setup Fedora Extras 6 on RHEL 5, create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo with the following content:

[fedora-extras]
name=Fedora Extras - 6 - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras

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 install a version of AccessGrid 2.4 that can be co-installed with 3.1, issue the following:

    yum install compat-AccessGrid-2.4

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 3.1 RPM can be found under http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/rhel

To build the AccessGrid 3.1 RPM, issue something like:

    rpmbuild -D "dist .el5" --rebuild AccessGrid-3.1-2.el5.src.rpm

Known Issues

SharedPresentation doesn't work in full-screen/slide-show mode with OpenOffice-2.x

Changelog

31 Mar, 2008

AccessGrid-3.1 CVS snapshot and compat-AccessGrid-2.4 RPMs for RHEL 5 released

Acknowledgements

Funding through UQVislab and QCIF.

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.