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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.

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

   Info
   title On CentOS 7
   rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm

5. Install git

   Code Block
   yum install git

6. Install Ruby 2.2.5 if ruby current version is lower

   Code Block
   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 source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm rvm install 2.2.5 rvm use 2.2.5 gem install bundler

7. Install json extensions for the system ruby

   Code Block
   gem install ruby-json

8. Download and extract Clone the Avalon Avalon install script

   Code Block
   wget httpgit clone --recursive --depth 1 https://wwwgithub.com/avalonmediasystem.org/downloads/avalon-installer-flat.tar.gzgit -Ob flat.tar.gz  tar xzf flat.tar.gz 5.x-stable cd avalon-installer-flat

9. Set up the installation variables

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

10. Collect facts to feed to puppet about your installation, the following will create hiera/data/custom.yaml

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

     

    Info
    title Facter can't detect some early CentOS 7 versions, if so run
    yum update

11. Execute the puppet script

    Code Block
    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

    Info
    If you see errors like "Could not prefetch firewall provider 'iptables'", then running `iptables --flush` will help.

    
    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.

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