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--- installing_from_source_on_debian [2008/04/16 11:51]
bredal
+++ installing_from_source_on_debian [2011/06/23 08:31]
vegardv [Installing dependencies]
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 Versions used:
-^ Debian | 4.0 (//Etch//) |
+^ Debian | 5.0 (//Lenny//) |
-^ NAV    | 3.3.3          |
+^ NAV    | 3.7             |
+===== Installing dependencies =====
+Make sure you have the //non-free// archive present in your
+''sources.list'':
+<code>
+deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
+deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
-===== Installing dependencies =====
+deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
+deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
+</code>
-Make sure you have the //non-free// archive present in your
+Install NAV's runtime dependencies:
-''sources.list''.  Install NAV's runtime dependencies:
 <code>
-sudo aptitude install perl python sun-java5-jdk apache2-mpm-prefork \
+sudo aptitude install perl python sun-java6-jdk apache2-mpm-prefork \
-                      cricket php4-gd php4-pgsql postgresql-8.1 tomcat5.5 \
+                      cricket postgresql-8.3 libapache2-mod-python \
-                      libapache2-mod-php4 libapache2-mod-python libpgjava \
+                      libpg-java libsnmp1.4-java python-pysnmp2 logrotate \
-                      libpg-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl libdbd-pg-perl \
+		      python-cheetah python-xmpp python-django \
-                      libsnmp1.4-java libsnmp-session-perl python-pysnmp2 \
+		      python-egenix-mxdatetime python-gammu python-ipy \
-                      logrotate python-cheetah python-egenix-mxdatetime \
+                      python-ldap python-psycopg2 python-pyrad \
-                      python-forgethtml python-forgetsql python-gammu \
+		      python-pysnmp-se python-twisted python-twisted-snmp \
-                      python-ipy python-ldap python-psycopg python-rrd \
+		      python-rrd rrdtool samba-common
-                      makepasswd wwwconfig-common samba-common
 </code>
-**OR**, check out Morten Werner Forsbring's dummy NAV package, which depends on all of the above.  See the following nav-users posting for details: https://postlister.uninett.no/sympa/arc/nav-users/2008-02/msg00001.html . Be aware that NAV doesn't run well under the //kaffe// Java VM, which is why you should confirm that Sun's Java 5 JDK is installed (''sun-java5-jdk'').
+Be aware that NAV doesn't run well under the //kaffe// Java VM, which is why you should confirm that Sun's Java JDK is installed (''sun-java6-jdk'') and is the active alternative for the ''java'' and ''javac'' commands:
+<code>
+sudo update-alternatives --config java
+sudo update-alternatives --config javac
+</code>
 Next, NAV's build time dependencies:
 <code>
-sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jdk ant autoconf libsnmp1.4-java libtomcat5.5-java python python-cheetah tomcat5.5
+sudo aptitude install ant autoconf automake libsnmp1.4-java python python-cheetah sun-java5-jdk
 </code>
 ===== Unpacking and building NAV =====
 <code>
-tar xvzf nav-3.3.3.tar.gz
+tar xvzf nav-3.7.0.tar.gz
-cd nav-3.3.3
+cd nav-3.7.0
-autoconf
+./configure CRICKETDIR=/usr/share/cricket
-./configure
+export CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/libsnmp-1.4.jar
-export CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/libsnmp-1.4.jar:/usr/share/java/postgresql.jar:/usr/share/java/servlet-api.jar
 make
 sudo make install
 </code>
+Note: avoid using -j when calling make. It will break the build, since make tries to run many ant processes with interdependencies at the same time.
 ===== Installing and initializing the database schema =====
-Edit ''/etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf'', change ''ident sameuser'' into ''md5'' for local users connecting through UNIX sockets (except the postgres user).  The file should look something like this:
+Edit ''/etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf'', change ''ident sameuser'' into ''md5'' for local users connecting through UNIX sockets (except the postgres user).  The file should look something like this:
 <code>
 local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser
@@ Line 60: / Line 68: @@
 </code>
-Then reload PosttgreSQL to make the changes effective:
+Then reload PostgreSQL to make the changes effective:
 <code>
-sudo invoke-rc.d postgresql-8.1 reload
+sudo invoke-rc.d postgresql-8.3 reload
 </code>
 While still in the NAV source code directory, ''cd'' to ''doc/sql''.  The following set of commands assume you have sudo access to run commands as the ''postgres'' system user.  If not, please become the ''postgres'' user in some other way.  The procedure has been adapted from ''doc/sql/README''.
-To create the set of PostgreSQL users and databases:
+To create the PostgreSQL user and database:
 <code>
-sudo -u postgres bash
 # The following command will prompt for a password for the new database user.
 # Pick one of your own choosing.
-createuser --no-createrole --no-createdb --no-superuser --pwprompt nav
+sudo -u postgres ./createdb.sh
-createdb --owner nav --encoding UTF-8 manage
-createdb --owner nav --encoding UTF-8 navprofiles
-createdb --owner nav --encoding UTF-8 logger
-createdb --owner nav --encoding UTF-8 arnold
-createlang plpgsql manage
-createlang plpgsql navprofiles
-</code>
-Then initialize the schemas and data:
-<code>
-# First, export the password you selected for the database user above:
-export PGPASSWORD=<secretpassword>
-psql -f manage.sql manage nav
-psql -f types.sql manage nav
-psql -f snmpoid.sql manage nav
-psql -f navprofiles.sql navprofiles nav
-psql -f logger.sql logger nav
-psql -f arnold.sql arnold nav
 </code>
 :!: Then, take the password you chose for the database user and put this as the value to the ''userpw_nav'' option in ''/usr/local/nav/etc/db.conf''.
-===== Fixing Python =====
+===== Fixing Python library path =====
-We do this because we don't install the libraries to the systemwide Python library directories.  We do however want them available for use systemwide:
+We do this because we don't install the libraries to the systemwide Python library directories by default.  We do however want them available for use systemwide:
 <code>
-sudo bash -c 'cat << EOF > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sitecustomize.py
+sudo bash -c 'cat << EOF >> /etc/python2.5/sitecustomize.py
 import sys
 __navpath = "/usr/local/nav/lib/python"
@@ Line 109: / Line 99: @@
-===== Fixing Java =====
+===== Fixing Java libraries =====
 <code>
-cd /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps
-sudo ln -s /usr/local/nav/apache/webapps/*.war .
 cd /usr/local/nav/lib/java
 sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar
 sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/libsnmp-1.4.jar
-</code>
-Change ''/etc/tomcat5.5/server.xml'', the line that reads ''<Connector port="8180" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"'': alter ''port="8180"'' to ''port="8080"'', as NAV expects Tomcat to listen to this port.
-Change ''/etc/default/tomcat5.5'', make sure the following two options are set like this:
-<code>
-CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server -Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/local/nav/lib/java"
-TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no
-</code>
-Then run the following:
-<code>
-sudo invoke-rc.d tomcat5.5 restart
-</code>
-===== Fixing Perl =====
-<code>
-cd /usr/share/perl5
-sudo ln -s /usr/local/nav/lib/perl/NAV* .
 </code>
@@ Line 165: / Line 133: @@
 <Location />
-    # Let NAV authorize all access to this location
+    # Enable debugging on errors, if you like
-    PythonHeaderParserHandler nav.web
     PythonDebug on
 </Location>
@@ Line 175: / Line 142: @@
 sudo a2dissite default
 sudo a2ensite default-nav
-sudo a2enmod php4
 sudo a2enmod mod_python
 sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 force-reload
 </code>
 ===== Cleaning up and configuring =====
@@ Line 196: / Line 159: @@
 Edit ''/usr/local/nav/etc/nav.conf'', set your ''ADMIN_MAIL'' and ''DOMAIN_SUFFIX'' options.
+Also set ''DJANGO_DEBUG=True'' if you want complete error information when stuff goes awry in the web interface.
 Optionally make the nav process control command more available: ''sudo ln -s /usr/local/nav/bin/nav /usr/sbin/nav''
+===== Initialize Cricket configuration =====
-===== Fixing Cricket =====
 Cricket should already be installed as it is a part of the runtime dependencies.
-Remove /etc/cron.d/cricket or comment out the line starting with the following:
+Remove ''/etc/cron.d/cricket'' or comment out the active cron job line in the file.
-<code>*/5 * * * *    cricket ...</code>
 Create a directory to place the nav cricket-config:
 <code>sudo mkdir /usr/local/nav/etc/cricket-config</code>
-Change owner to navcron.nav
+Change owner to navcron:nav
 <code>
-sudo chown navcron.nav cricket-config/
+sudo chown navcron:nav /usr/local/nav/etc/cricket-config
 </code>
-Edit the /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl and set this variable:
+Edit the /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl and set the configroot variable. At the same time, fix the logging. Cricket defaults to /var/log/cricket as logdir. This directory is created on install, but the owner is cricket. Either create your own logdir and set the correct path ($gLogDir) in /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl or change ownership of /var/log/cricket to navcron.
-<code>$gConfigRoot = "/usr/local/nav/etc/cricket-config"</code>
+<code>
+$gConfigRoot = "/usr/local/nav/etc/cricket-config"
+$gLogDir = your/log/dir
+</code>
 Copy /usr/local/nav/doc/cricket/cricket/subtree-sets to /etc/cricket/
@@ Line 228: / Line 192: @@
 As navcron, copy recursively /usr/local/nav/doc/cricket/cricket-config/ to your cricket-config
 <code>
-sudo -u navcron cp -r /usr/local/nav/doc/cricket/cricket-config/ /usr/local/nav/etc/cricket-config/
+sudo -u navcron cp -r /usr/local/nav/doc/cricket/cricket-config /usr/local/nav/etc/
 </code>
-Decide where you want Cricket to store it's datafiles, and create that directory as navcron.
+Create a directory to store Cricket's data files, and give ''navcron'' ownership of that directory.
-<code>sudo -u navcron mkdir /usr/local/nav/var/cricket-data/</code>
+<code>
+sudo mkdir /usr/local/nav/var/cricket-data
+sudo chown navcron /usr/local/nav/var/cricket-data
+</code>
 Go to the cricket-config directory and edit the "Defaults" file. Replace the Datadir with the correct path to cricket-data. Don't forget the %auto-target-path%
@@ Line 243: / Line 210: @@
 <code>sudo -u navcron cricket-compile</code>
-Run makecricketconfig.pl to create config from the database. The first time, remember that the database should contain data before doing this. Also, it's a good idea to start getDeviceData and let it run a good couple of minutes before making the cricket-config as it then will have gathered and stored data in the database.
+Run ''mcc.py'' to create config from the database. The first time, remember that the database should contain data before doing this. Also, it's a good idea to start ''ipdevpoll'' and let it run a good couple of minutes before making the cricket-config as it then will have gathered and stored information about devices and interfaces in the database.
 <code>
 cd /usr/local/nav/bin
-sudo -u navcron ./makecricketconfig.pl
+sudo -u navcron ./mcc.py
-</code>
-Now to logging. Cricket defaults to /var/log/cricket as logdir. This directory is created on install, but the owner is cricket. Either create your own logdir and set the correct path ($gLogDir) in /etc/cricket/cricket-conf.pl or change ownership of /var/log/cricket to navcron.
-Finally we fix nav's startupscript for cricket. Go to /usr/local/nav/etc/cron.d/ and edit "cricket".
-<code>
-CRICKETDIR = /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cricket
-*/5 * * * * $CRICKETDIR/collect-subtrees normal
-5 * * * $BINDIR/makecricketconfig.pl
-5 * * * $BINDIR/cleanrrds.pl -d -p /usr/local/nav/var/cricket-data/
 </code>
@@ Line 265: / Line 221: @@
 sudo ./nav start cricket
 </code>
 ==== Cricket Web ====
@@ Line 277: / Line 232: @@
 Make a symlink to the cricket cgi-scripts and copy cricket.css from source.
 <code>
+cd /usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/cricket
 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cricket/grapher.cgi
 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cricket/mini-graph.cgi
 sudo ln -s grapher.cgi index.cgi
+sudo ln -s /usr/share/cricket/images
 sudo cp /usr/local/nav/doc/cricket/public_html/cricket.css .
 </code>
-Create .htaccess-file to remove python handling this directory.
+Create .htaccess-file to make sure mod_python doesn't handle this directory.
 <code>
-vim .htaccess
+sudo bash -c 'echo "SetHandler none" > .htaccess'
+</code>
-SetHandler none
-:wq
-</code>

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