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Instructions

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.

2. Become root

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   sudo -s

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

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   echo 0 > /selinux/enforce sed -ie "s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/" /etc/selinux/config

4. Install puppet from the Puppet Labs repository

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

   
   

5. Install git

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   yum install git

6. Install Ruby 2.1.5 if ruby current version is lower

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   ruby -v #The following command won't work the first time.  # It will request you download the signatures first  # and provide the command to download it. curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm rvm install 2.1.5 rvm use 2.1.5 gem install bundler

7. Install json extensions for the system ruby

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   yum install ruby-json

8. Download and extract the Avalon install script

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

9. Set up the installation variables

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

10. 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'

     

11. Execute the puppet script

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    rvm system do 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.

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

NOTE: Puppet needs to download dozens of system packages, software distributions, source files, and other information, largely from trusted third party repositories. Sometimes, one or more repositories might be offline, unresponsive, or otherwise unavailable, causing Puppet to display a series of errors about failed dependencies. Fortunately, Puppet can usually figure out how to make things right. Simply repeat the puppet apply ... command in step 11 to try to repair the install.

Ports

The Avalon Media System requires several ports to be open to client browsers. The Vagrant Install handles all the port forwarding for local access automatically, but the manual install will require attention to make sure the required ports are open and accessible. Here are the manual instructions.

Using the System

• You can find specific information about using the system in the Collection Manager's Guide. 
• Configure additional features
• Install sample content
• Known Issues - a list of bugs, workarounds, and cautions