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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

   Code Block
   sudo -s

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

   Code Block
   echo 0 > /selinux/enforce # Editvim `/etc/selinux/config`config and change#change the value of `SELINUX` from `enforcing` to `permissive`

4. Install puppet from the Puppet Labs repository

   Code Block
   rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-6.noarch.rpm yum install puppet-3.1.1

   Note: This manifest is known not to work with puppet 3.2. Please make sure you have Puppet 3.1.

   
   

5. Install git

   Code Block
   yum install git

6. Download and extract the Avalon install script

   Code Block
   wget http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/avalon-installer-flat-2.0.0.tar.gz -O flat.tar.gz  tar xzf flat.tar.gz cd avalon-installer-flat

7. Set up the installation variables

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

8. 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_user	the login for the Avalon Dropbox user	avalondrop
   avalon_dropbox_password	the plaintext password for the Avalon Dropbox user	nil
   avalon_dropbox_password_hash	the pre-hashed password for the Avalon Dropbox user	nil
   avalon_public_address	the hostname clients should connect to	Output of hostname -f
   avalon_root_dir	the base directory for avalon content	/var/avalon
   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.

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

   Code Block
   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

   
   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.

10. 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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