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1. Create and log into a CentOS 6.x or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x system as a user with sudo rights

2. Become root

   sudo -s 

3. Disable SELinux (which we're not currently set up to support)

   echo 0 > /selinux/enforce Edit `/etc/selinux/config` and change the value of `SELINUX` from `enforcing` to `permissive` 

4. Install puppet from the Puppet Labs repository

   rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-6.noarch.rpm yum install puppet 

5. Install git

   yum install git 

6. Download and extract the Avalon install script

   wget httpshttp://githubwww.avalonmediasystem.comorg/avalonmediasystemdownloads/avalon-installer/archive/-flat.tar.gz -O flat.tar.gz tar xzf flat.tar.gz 

7. cd avalon-installer-flat

8. Set up the installation variables

   INSTALL_DIR=`pwd` ln -s $INSTALL_DIR/files /etc/puppet/avalon_files cd $INSTALL_DIR/manifests 

9. Collect facts about your installation to feed to puppet

   Fact	Description	Default
   avalon_admin_user	an email address for the initial avalon collection/group manager	archivist1@example.com
   avalon_dropbox_password	the plaintext password for the dropbox user	nil
   avalon_dropbox_password_hash	the pre-hashed password for the dropbox user	nil
   avalon_dropbox_user	the login for the Avalon dropbox user	avalondrop
   avalon_public_address	the hostname clients should connect to	Output of hostname -f
   rails_env	the Rails environment to run avalon under	production

   NOTE: Either avalon_dropbox_password or avalon_dropbox_password_hash is required. All other facts are optional.

10. Execute the puppet script, passing selected facts as environment variables prefixed with FACTER_, e.g.

    FACTER_avalon_public_address=avalon.example.edu FACTER_avalon_dropbox_password=dropithere FACTER_rails_env=development \ puppet apply --fileserverconfig=$INSTALL_DIR/fileserver.conf --modulepath=$INSTALL_DIR/modules \ --hiera_config=$INSTALL_DIR/hiera/hiera.yml --templatedir=$INSTALL_DIR/templates ./init.pp --detailed-exitcodes 

11. Be patient. The manifest needs to download, install and configure a whole lot of dependencies and servers. This could take 30 minutes or more even with a fast connection.

12. When the script finishes, open a web browser and connect to the public address you configured above (e.g.,http://avalon.example.edu/) Create a new user with email archivist1@example.com, this is the default collection_manager and group_manager.

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