Topic: Akopia

[Alec Norek]

Has anybody figured out how to install Akopia and get it running.  I found Groupware and Nuke easy, but I have wasted a lot of time with Akopia to no avail.
When I run ./configure, I get "make: command not found".  I downloaded make-3.79.tar and now I'm getting errors running the ./configure script for make.

Cheers

[Charlie Brady]

Alec Norek wrote:
 
> When I run ./configure, I get "make: command not found".  I
> downloaded make-3.79.tar and now I'm getting errors running
> the ./configure script for make.

Please be sure to read the FAQ on this web site.

Charlie

[Justin]

> Alec Norek wrote:
> > When I run ./configure, I get "make: command not found".  I
> > downloaded make-3.79.tar and now I'm getting errors running
> > the ./configure script for make.


If your referring to interchange I have it succesfully up and running on an e-smith server. I am planning a how-to in the near future if others are interested in running this.

Justin

[Fran Boon]

Yes indeed

Not for me in the immediate, but *many* people are trying to get E-Commerce applications running on E-Smith. Akopia is supposed to be the best - certainly RedHat have bought them out, so there should be nice, tight integration

Thanks,
Fran.

[Randy Brown]

can you get the binarys in rpm format? that would make life simpler.

[Alec Norek]

Justin,

Looking forward to your how-to for Akopia Interchange.  The way I see it, the more experience we have with useful business applications the better, for both us and e-smith.  When I talk about a total server package, I also like to mention other possibilities such as VPN, Frontpage 98/2000 extensions compatibility, dial-in server (Free Internet for the Boss), e-commerce etc. WITH CONFIDENCE.

Cheers

PS Now that Akopia has been acquired, it will receive more publicity and nice to say that e-smith can do.

[Fran Boon]

>can you get the binarys in rpm format? that would make life simpler.

Not necessarily - this can make things harder - since E-Smith is configured differently to a straight RedHat system...
The ideal would be the src.rpm - this gives you the best of both worlds (although you still need a compiler...the usual recommendation is to have a straight RedHat-7 box on which to build the custom binary RPMs)
RPM's --relocate can help somewhat, but still isn't as flexible...

An alternative to distributing the src.rpm is to do what Akopia do - add the .spec file to the tar.gz...hence the ability to do:
rpm -tb interchange*.tar.gz

F

[Justin]

> >can you get the binarys in rpm format? that would make life
> simpler.

Yes I used the binary rpm's for my install and did the modifications after the fact. This seems to fit e-smith's preferred model for new packages. I just don't have my modifications in rpm format.

> Not necessarily - this can make things harder - since E-Smith
> is configured differently to a straight RedHat system...

Luckliy it looks like the marriage of Akopia and Redhat helped in this example.

> The ideal would be the src.rpm - this gives you the best of
> both worlds (although you still need a compiler...the usual
> recommendation is to have a straight RedHat-7 box on which to
> build the custom binary RPMs)
> RPM's --relocate can help somewhat, but still isn't as
> flexible...
>
> An alternative to distributing the src.rpm is to do what
> Akopia do - add the .spec file to the tar.gz...hence the
> ability to do:
> rpm -tb interchange*.tar.gz
>

I have not tried this.


Justin

[Milan Stejic]

Hi Justin,

I too would be interested in seeing this how-to.  Have you had any time to put is together yet?

Milan

[Brett]

Justin,

How did you get the Perl extensions in place so that Interchange would work correctly.

I've got the demo working, but Storable is still not loading (although I have RPM'd it in).  I'm also getting an error Checking Out, where "dup" is not found in SQL::Parser.

I've loaded all the CPAN Perl RPMs that seem to be needed.

I'm trying to track down the depedencies for Make so that I can just run "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange" per Interchange's documentation...

Thanks,
Brett

[Justin]

Brett,

I also manually loaded the CPAN Perl RPM's manually.

I remember Gordon posted a long time ago what the "make" dependencies were, so if you do a search you should be able to pull that post up.

I haven't done extensive testing on my installation (I just made the document to help get people started with Interchange). However I have done a start to finish transaction without any problems including the "Check out" stage.

I will help where I can but I haven't even looked at interchange since I finished the install notes a couple of months ago.

Justin.

[Brett]

Justin,

Appreciated.  I know I'm close.  I'll look around for an updated version of the SQL::Parser module.  What version do you have?

I've searched the archives for "make" info, but only found a list for RH 6.1.  It appears that RH 7.0 uses different RPMs.  I'm downloading a few now, and I'll give that a spin.

These have been a few "gotchas" (like getting the "Link"     program working correctly), and after I get this "test" cart working, I'll be able to document things a little better on the production cart.  I didn't see your document, is it somewhere on the web?  If not, would you like my 2c in reviewing it?

Thanks,
Brett

[Justin]

> Appreciated.  I know I'm close.  I'll look around for an
> updated version of the SQL::Parser module.  What version do
> you have?

I didn't install it at all.
 
> I've searched the archives for "make" info, but only found a
> list for RH 6.1.  It appears that RH 7.0 uses different
> RPMs.  I'm downloading a few now, and I'll give that a spin.

Great let me know what you end up using

> These have been a few "gotchas" (like getting the "Link"    
> program working correctly), and after I get this "test" cart
> working, I'll be able to document things a little better on
> the production cart.  I didn't see your document, is it
> somewhere on the web?

Nope

>  If not, would you like my 2c in
> reviewing it?

Sure - but it may be dated by now. It was written before e-smith moved to RH 7
 
Justin

[Justin]

I just went backed and looked at my development store and doing the e-smith upgrade to 4.1.2 disabled my configuration.

I will have to look into it further and see what happened.

Justin