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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

   Code Block
   sudo -s

   
   

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

   Code Block
   echo 0 > /selinux/enforce vimsed -ie "s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/" /etc/selinux/config #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-6-610.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.tar.gz -O flat.tar.gz  tar xzf flat.tar.gz cd avalon-installer-release-flat

   
   

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

   
   

7. Install git

   Code Block
   yum install git

   
   

8. 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

   
   

9. Install json extensions for the system ruby

   Code Block
   gem install ruby-json

   
   

10. Clone the Avalon install script

    Code Block
    git clone --recursive --depth 1 https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon-installer.git -b 5.x-stable cd avalon-installer

    
    

11. Set up the installation variables

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

    
    

12. 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.

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

    Code BlockFACTER_avalon_public_address=avalon.example.edu \ FACTER_avalon_dropbox_password=dropithere \ FACTER_rails_env=development \

    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

    
    

13. Execute the puppet script

    Code Block
    rvm system do puppet apply --fileserverconfig=$INSTALL_DIR/fileserver.conf \ --modulepath=$INSTALL_DIR/modules --hiera_config=$INSTALL_DIR/hiera/hiera.ymlyaml \ --templatedir=$INSTALL_DIR/templates .manifests/init.pp --detailed-exitcodes

    
    

    Info
    It is important to give a hostname when asked, otherwise Avalon/Fedora may not work. 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.

14. When the script finishes, open a web browser and connect to the public address you configured above 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 10 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.

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• Configure additional features
• Install sample content
• Known Issues - a list of bugs, workarounds, and cautions

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