This installation guide describes one way to
set up a linux test environment with Demaq EDU. This is obviously not
the only
way, but it is a fairly useful way for testing purposes, because you
will
work with a Virtual Machine, that you can completely mess up without
affecting
your common hosting system. Also it is as easy as copy and paste to
backup
or restore the whole virtual system.
This chapter
will walk you through the
setup of a Virtual Machine with Suse Linux 10. Feel free to skip it if
you already have a Linux Machine up and running.
- Go to http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml.
- required settings (The 4 green
fields):
- Virtual
machine name: yourName
- Select
GuestOS: SuSE Linux
- Memory
Size: 512MB (we recommend 1024, but max half of your main memory)
- Disk
#1: Disk size 10GB (You may want to choose more)
- recommendations:
- disable
Soundcard, USB, Serial, Ports and Parallel port
- use
network configuration in Bridged mode (you can change all these settings
later)
- click create virtual machine
and download the yourName.zip, that you can unzip in
<VMX_PATH>
- Go to http://de.opensuse.org/Stabile_Version#Herunterladen.
- choose the x86 DVD version
(File is ending on *.iso)
- as this is an 3.5 GB download
consider to use Free Download Manager
(http://www.freedownloadmanager.org).
) or a similar tool
Daemon Tools is a virtual
cd/dvd-rom emulator
which makes it possible to start the SuSE Linux iso-file directly from
your
Harddisc. ( If you prefer burning the image on a dvd, go that way: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm).
- Go to http://www.daemon-tools.cc
- click on downloads and download
the latest Daemon tools version
- install daemon tools and start
it
- right click on the red
lightning icon in the taskbar
- choose Virtual CD/DVD-ROM
> Device 0 > MountImage
- browse to the location of the
SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-i386.iso and double click on it
- Try to find out which drive
letter your new virtual DVD-ROM drive has (look it up in My Computer
for example)
- Open the .vmx-file in your
<VMX_PATH> with wordpad
- find the part “# Settings for
physical CDROM drive” and change the filename key to the drive-letter
of your virtual DVD-ROM drive (e.g.: ide1:0.fileName = "G:")
The VMWare Player is the
emulator for your
Linux testing environment. It emulates a fully qualified Computer, on
which you
will install Linux.
- Go to http://www.vmware.com/de/products/player
- download
the latest VMware Player version
- install VMware Player
- double click on the vmx file from section 2.2
- The SuSe Linux installation process should start
3. Installing Demaq EDU
3.1
Install the Demaq EDU base package
Extract
the Demaq EDU package to a directory where you have read, write and
execute access rights. If you are unsure, just use
/home/yourusername/demaqedu .
Next, set the XFROGGER_HOME
environment variable to this directory. Don't forget to "export" the
variable by typing "export XFROGGER_HOME".
We suggest you edit
the .profile file in the /etc directory accordingly.
XFROGGER_HOME=/home/yourusername/demaqedu
export XFROGGER_HOME |
3.2 Install
additional packages
Use your
distribution's packet manager to install the following packets if they
are not already present
Optional
- Heirloom mailx for outgoing mail support
(http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html,
see chapter 3.3 of the Demaq EDU Manual for more details on mail support)
- If
you want to compile the web-service server and other utilities
yourself :
- GNU C++ Compiler and standard
headers
- libxml2-devel
3.3 (optional) Compile the web-service server application and other utilities
cd bin
run compile_server.sh
run compile_writefile.sh
run compile_xpath.sh |
Test the installation
run from the demaq EDU home directory:
|
sh ./check_prerequisites.sh |
Contact information
Homepage of the Demaq project :
http://www.demaq.net
E-Mail (please replace "-at-" with "@")
Dennis Knochenwefel: demaq-at-knochenwefel.de
Martin Kremer: demaq-at-martin-kremer.de
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Mannheim, June 2007