Re: first install of RefDB .debs

This whole thread has been interesting to me for several reasons, not
least of which is that I have needed to get a number of installations
running.

I came to refdb from Procite and old commercial Mac/Win citation manager
from the publisher of Endnote that is nearing the end of its useful life
(the procite list is busy discussing whether it is now time to get out).

One of the results of playing around with these many installations is
that I am understanding why commercial programs like Oxygen or Crossover
Office tend to skip the whole distro specific thing (or offer rpms only)
in favour of, as far as I can tell, building from source using a script.
Synapsen does it as well, and it is a joy to install, though a much more
limited program.

I wonder if something like this would be useful for refdb? Installation
is an issue for newbies, I think--perhaps even more so in the case of
refdb because it is so powerful and feature laden. The two improvements
I think a newbie would get the most help from would be an easier
installation and of course the old chestnut of a web-based interface
(please not that this is not a negative criticism! I really love using
refdb--I'm just thinking what it would take for me to recommend it to
colleagues who are not more than basically computer literate).

So anyway I threw together a bash script last night that takes me from a
clean distro install to the end of refdb-init.sh, configuring the
sources installations for debian and setting up the perl. It isn't
pretty (It would be better with zenity or something), but it does the
job. It also seems to me that it could be extended to cover other
distros with relative ease, since the main issue when installing from
source is matching the preferred location of lib files and bins. A
bigger issue would be maintenance, since there are quite a number of
specific files that will of course change over time. But I suppose the
script could go in releases.

I'm so new at this that I probably am missing something crucial. What
has been striking in the last week or so with my interactions with both
refdb and yaz, however, is the extent to which cutting edge programs
seem to have trouble with distro packages. It seems to me it might be
better to take a page out of the commercial developers book and offer a
set up script that takes care of things on the basis of a couple of
responses.

I'm copying the script out here in case anybody else is interested in
seeing it. It is still quite rough and has only been tested on my
machines, so I wouldn't use it on a crucial server! I really should add
more abort points, for example.

-8<------
#!/bin/sh

echo "============================================="
echo "             /home/dan/installrefdb.sh"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "          This script installs refdb "
echo "                  from source"
echo "                on Debian/Ubuntu"
echo "                    systems"
echo ""
echo "============================================="
echo ""
echo ""
echo "     Are you sure that you want to begin?"
echo "                     [y/N]"
read answer
echo ""
answer=$answer
if [ ! "$answer" = "y" ]
then
echo "Aborting"
exit
fi
echo ""
echo "Step 1:"
echo "Ensure that the community and multiverse repositories are enabled
in /etc/apt/sources.list"
echo ""
echo "To do this, open /etc/apt/sources.list in your favorite editor
(e.g. nano or gedit)" 
echo "and remove the # sign from  in front of the community and universe
repositories"
echo "(see also:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_add_extra_repositories)"
echo ""
echo ""
echo "     Have you enabled the necessary repositories?"
echo "                     [y/N]"
read answer
echo ""
answer=$answer
if [ ! "$answer" = "y" ]
then
echo "Aborting... please start again"
exit
fi
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Step 2:"
echo "Installing the necessary binaries (type your adminstrative 
password if requested)..."
echo ""
echo "sudo apt-get install make mysql-client mysql-server
libmysqlclient15-dev zlib1g-dev libbtparse0 libbtparse-dev
libreadline5-dev gcc libexpat1-dev"
sudo apt-get install make mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
zlib1g-dev libbtparse0 libbtparse-dev libreadline5-dev gcc libexpat1-dev
echo ""
echo "Step 3:"
echo "Set up an adminstrative password for mysql..."
echo ""
echo "Would you like to set up an administrative username and password 
for mysql? (y/n)"
read answer
echo ""
answer=$answer
if [ "$answer" = "y" ]
then
echo "What username would you like (root is fine)?"
read answer
echo ""
name=$answer
echo "What password would you like this account to have?"
read answer
echo ""
password=$answer
echo ""
echo "mysqladmin -u $name password '$password'"
mysqladmin -u $name password '$password'
fi
echo "Step 4:"
echo "Get and install files..."
echo "wget
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi/libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz &&
tar zxvf libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz && cd libdbi-0.8.1/ && ./configure
--prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install && cd .. && wget
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers-0.8.1a.tar.gz && tar zxvf libdbi-drivers-0.8.1a.tar.gz && cd libdbi-drivers-0.8.1/ && ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql && make && sudo make install && cd .. && wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.38.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBERJON/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-SAX-0.14.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KASEI/Class-Accessor-0.25.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ES/ESUMMERS/MARC-Charset-0.95.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.4.tar.gz http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/refdb/RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1.tar.gz && tar zxvf MARC-Record-1.38.tar.
 gz && tar zxvf XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 && tar zxvf Class-Accessor-0.25 && tar zxvf XML-S
 AX-0.14.tar.gz && tar zxvf MARC-Charset-0.95.tar.gz && tar zxvf XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz && tar zxvf Text-Iconv-1.4.tar.gz && tar zxvf RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1.tar.gz && cd MARC-Record-1.38 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-SAX-0.14 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../Class-Accessor-0.25 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../MARC-Charset-0.95 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-Parser-2.34 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../Text-Iconv-1.4 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../ && wget http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz && tar zxvf refdb-latest.tar.gz && cd refdb-0.9.7-pre7/ && ./c
 onfigure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-refdb-url=http://localhost/refdb --prefix=/usr && make &
 & sudo make install && cd .."
wget
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi/libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz &&
tar zxvf libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz && cd libdbi-0.8.1/ && ./configure
--prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install && cd .. && wget
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers-0.8.1a.tar.gz && tar zxvf libdbi-drivers-0.8.1a.tar.gz && cd libdbi-drivers-0.8.1/ && ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql && make && sudo make install && cd .. && wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.38.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBERJON/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-SAX-0.14.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KASEI/Class-Accessor-0.25.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ES/ESUMMERS/MARC-Charset-0.95.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.4.tar.gz http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/refdb/RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1.tar.gz && tar zxvf MARC-Record-1.38.tar.
 gz && tar zxvf XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09.tar.gz && tar zxvf Class-Accessor-0.25.tar.gz && 
 tar zxvf XML-SAX-0.14.tar.gz && tar zxvf MARC-Charset-0.95.tar.gz && tar zxvf XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz && tar zxvf Text-Iconv-1.4.tar.gz && tar zxvf RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1.tar.gz && cd MARC-Record-1.38 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-SAX-0.14 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../Class-Accessor-0.25 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../MARC-Charset-0.95 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../XML-Parser-2.34 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../Text-Iconv-1.4 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../RefDB-perlmod-0.4.1 && perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install && cd ../ && wget http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz && tar zxvf refdb-latest.tar.gz && cd refdb-0.9.
 7-pre7/ && ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-refdb-url=http://localhost/refdb --prefix=
 /usr && make && sudo make install && cd ..
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Now running the installation script. Please answer all
questions..."
echo ""
echo "cd /usr/local/bin/ && sudo refdb-init.sh"
cd /usr/local/bin/ && sudo refdb-init.sh
echo ""
echo "If you had no error messages, your installation was successful.
Enjoy!"
-->8-----

I through together a bash script last night that takes you from a clean
install to the conclusion of the refdb-init.sh script, setting up your 

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:05 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> doug <[email protected]> was heard to say:
> 
> > It almost went off without a hitch but for some reason
> > I was missing a /var/lib/refdb/db/DB_VERSION file which your install
> > script complained about in a big blue voice.
> >
> > I wasn't exactly sure how to convince refdbd to produce one for me
> > but discovered I had one lurking in /usr/local/var/lib....
> >
> 
> According to Subversion I've fixed this problem 12 days ago. This was probably
> too late for the prerelease you're testing, but this problem should no longer
> show up in the .debs built from the svn version.
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 


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