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author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-06-15 15:11:06 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-06-15 15:11:06 -0400 |
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diff --git a/doc/ScientificLinux5.mdwn b/doc/ScientificLinux5.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..429281370 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ScientificLinux5.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +I was waiting for my backups to be done hence this article, as I was using +_git-annex_ to manage my files and I decided I needed to have +git-annex on a SL5 based machine. SL5 is just an opensource +clone/recompile of RHEL5. + +I haven't tried to install the newer versions of Haskell Platform and +GHC in a while on SL5 to install git-annex. But the last time I checked +when GHC7 was out, it was a pain to install GHC on SL5. + +However I have discovered that someone has gone through the trouble of +packaging up GHC and Haskell Platform for RHEL based distros. + +* <http://justhub.org/download> - Packaged GHC and Haskell Platform + RPM's for RHEL based systems. + +I'm primarily interested in installing _git-annex_ on SL5 based +systems. The installation process goes as such... + +First install GHC and Haskell Platform (you need root for these +following steps) + + $ wget http://sherkin.justhub.org/el5/RPMS/x86_64/justhub-release-2.0-4.0.el5.x86_64.rpm + $ rpm -ivh justhub-release-2.0-4.0.el5.x86_64.rpm + $ yum install haskell + +The RPM's don't place the files in /usr/bin, so you must add the +following to your .bashrc (from here on you don't need root if you +don't want things to be system wide) + + $ export PATH=/usr/hs/bin:$PATH + +On SL5 pcre is at version 6.6 which is far too old for one of the +dependancies that git-annex requires. Therefore the user must install +an updated version of _pcre_ either from source or another method, I +chose to install it from source and by hand into /usr/local + + $ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/8.30/pcre-8.30.tar.gz/download + $ tar zxvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz + $ cd pcre-8.30 + $ ./configure + $ make && make install + +Once the packages are installed and are in your execution path, using +cabal to configure and build git-annex just makes life easier, it +should install all the needed dependancies. + + $ cabal update + $ cabal install pcre-light --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/include + $ git clone git://git.kitenet.net/git-annex + $ cd git-annex + $ make git-annex.1 + $ cabal configure + $ cabal build + $ cabal install + +Or if you want to install it globallly for everyone (otherwise it will +get installed into $HOME/.cabal/bin) + + $ cabal install --global + +The above will take a while to compile and install the needed +dependancies. I would suggest any user who does should run the tests +that comes with git-annex to make sure everything is functioning as +expected. + +I haven't had a chance or need to install git-annex on a SL6 based +system yet, but I would assume something similar to the above steps +would be required to do so. + +The above is almost a cut and paste of <http://jcftang.github.com/2012/06/15/installing-git-annex-on-sl5/>, the above could probably be refined, it was what worked for me on SL5. Please feel free to re-edit and chop out or add useless bits of text in the above! |