These are the instructions to get Avalon up and running on a clean RHEL machine. Your mileage may vary for other Linux distributions.
Install Avalon
Install developer tools
Install packages required for dependencies to build properly.
yum install gcc-c++ zlib-devel readline-devel openssl-devel java-1.7.0-openjdk
Install RVM to manage Ruby (http://rvm.io/) If it doesn't download right away it might ask you to download signatures.
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
Reload shell environment using the instructions given in rvm's installation output.
Make sure ruby installed correctly
rvm list
Update rubygem
gem update --system
Install bundler for managing dependencies
gem install bundler
Install & setup Git
Install Git
yum install git
The next step is for committers.
Create an account on github and set up SSH keys. For more help see the detailed instructions
cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com" cat id_rsa.pub #Add the output to your github account's list of keys
Install Matterhorn dependencies
You'll need a couple Matterhorn dependencies installed: ffmpeg and MediaInfo.
This may take a LONG time to run so have something else to keep you busy!
FFMPEG
yum install ffmpeg
If installing ffmpeg with yum doesn't work, or you have dependency problems, you can try installing it from source.
yum install libfaac-devel git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg cd ffmpeg ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb \ --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-librtmp --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis \ --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab make
That configure statement might need to change. It worked for me, but it seems puppet has more options enabled.
If you're still having trouble, check felix/log/opencast.log and see if there are any exceptions. Also, go to felix/etc/config.properties and make sure matterhorn is pointing to the correct ffmpeg.
Mediainfo
Go to MediaInfo's website to install MediaInfo. #Someone should fill more out here.
Setup Avalon
The next step may be slightly different depending on your operating system if you are not using RHEL6. When running bundle install you may need to set: QMAKE=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4
Add the required dependencies so that all gems will install properly.
yum install ruby-devel libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel
Go to your workspace. This command will download avalon source from github. Run bundle install to install all of the necessary dependency gems.
git clone git@github.com:avalonmediasystem/avalon.git cd avalon bundle install --gemfile=Gemfile.first QMAKE=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4 bundle install
Prepare the databases
rake db:migrate rake db:test:prepare
Install the hydra-jetty, avalon-felix, and avalon-red5 submodules. The hydra-jetty submodule contains Fedora and Solr and can be managed via jettywrapper rake tasks. The avalon-felix submodule is a custom instance of Matterhorn. avalon-red5 is a custom instance of Red5 with Matterhorn integration. These two servers can also be controlled with rake tasks. After installing them, force them to track the master branch for their respective repositories.
git submodule init git submodule update cd jetty/ git fetch --tags git checkout 4.x cd .. cd felix/ git fetch --tags git checkout 1.4.x cd ..
Config avalon based upon the Configuration Files page. Note that Matterhorn config files can be put in the felix_conf directory and copied over with the felix:config rake task.
To configure Devise and Blacklight Secret Key, in your avalon directory run the following command:
rake secret
Copy the output, then create and open the file config/secrets.yml. Like the other yml files, you can have separate sections for development, test and production. Here is a template:
development: secret_key_base: <Paste the hash>
Start all services
rake jetty:config rake felix:config rake avalon:services:start
To make the startup of avalon easier after a git pull, you can add these functions to your .bashrc script.
Test Avalon
From your avalon installation execute
rails server
Navigate to http://localhost:3000
1 Comment
Claire Stewart
http://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/trunk/docs/scripts/3rd_party/
Link to Matterhorn 3rd party dependencies is bad; here's the correct URL. (didn't want to directly edit this developer page). MacOSX page has similar issue.
Also there are references to Hydrant.