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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

   Warning
   The current Puppet script has issues if executed on a clean, "minimal" CentOS. A "minimal desktop" CentOS is recommended. The current Puppet script requires Ruby version 1.9.3 or higher.

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 sed -ie "s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/" /etc/selinux/config

4. Install puppet from the Puppet Labs repository

   Code Block
   rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-10.noarch.rpm yum install puppet

   
   

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.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

8. Create hiera/data/custom.yaml and collect facts to feed to puppet about your installation:

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   ruby -r './fact_gatherer.rb' -e 'FactGatherer.gather_facts'

    

9. Execute the puppet script

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   puppet apply --fileserverconfig=$INSTALL_DIR/fileserver.conf \ --modulepath=$INSTALL_DIR/modules --hiera_config=$INSTALL_DIR/hiera/hiera.yaml \ --templatedir=$INSTALL_DIR/templates manifests/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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