AccessGrid RPMs (i386 & x86_64 - RHEL 5 and compatible spinoffs such as CentOS or Scientific Linux) :
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
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-5-3.noarch.rpm
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 |
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:
yum install openoffice.org-pyuno
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.