Installing xPapers on Gentoo

xPapers is an open source web portal framework for disciplinary virtual research environments developed through project partners at University of London and Australian National University and part funded by JISC.

xPapers installation documentation is provided for Linux on Debian and Ubuntu systems - I'm installing on Gentoo, so here goes.

Dependencies

First we need to install the dependencies on the Gentoo server - this has been adapted from the xPapers documentation for Debian/Ubuntu.

N.B. MySQL needs to be installed from source to compile it with SphinxSE (Open Source search server) - see below.

First, add portage use flags to provide package compilation with appropriate support.

Available flags can be viewed in the file /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and added to /etc/make.conf e.g. USE=" -apache2 -perl -mysql -mysqli ..."

apache2 - Adds Apache2 support
perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language
mysql - Adds mySQL Database support
mysqli - Adds support for the improved mySQL libraries

Next, emerge the following dependencies

* sys-devel/libtool
Latest version available: 2.4-r1
Latest version installed: 2.4-r1
Size of files: 832 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
Description: A shared library tool for developers
License: GPL-2

* sys-libs/ncurses
Latest version available: 5.7-r7
Latest version installed: 5.7-r7
Size of files: 2,387 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
Description: console display library
License: MIT

* app-admin/sysstat
Latest version available: 10.0.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 259 kB
Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
Description: System performance tools for Linux
License: GPL-2

* app-text/aspell
Latest version available: 0.60.6-r2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,736 kB
Homepage: http://aspell.net/
Description: A spell checker replacement for ispell
License: LGPL-2

* dev-perl/Text-Aspell
Latest version available: 0.09
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 13 kB
Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~hank/
Description: Perl interface to the GNU Aspell Library
License: || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

* app-dicts/aspell-en
Latest version available: 6.0.0
Latest version installed: 6.0.0
Size of files: 178 kB
Homepage: http://aspell.net
Description: English (US, British, Canadian) language dictionary for aspell
License: as-is public-domain

* dev-lang/perl
Latest version available: 5.12.3-r1
Latest version installed: 5.12.3-r1
Size of files: 11,767 kB
Homepage: http://www.perl.org/
Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
License: || ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )

* www-servers/apache
Latest version available: 2.2.17
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 4,896 kB
Homepage: http://httpd.apache.org/
Description: The Apache Web Server.
License: Apache-2.0 Apache-1.1

* www-apache/mod_perl
Latest version available: 2.0.4-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 3,640 kB
Homepage: http://perl.apache.org/
Description: An embedded Perl interpreter for Apache2
License: GPL-2

* www-apache/mod_fastcgi
Latest version available: 2.4.7_pre0910052141
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 100 kB
Homepage: http://fastcgi.com/
Description: FastCGI is a open extension to CGI without the limitations of server specific APIs.
License: FastCGI


N.B. Gentoo is likely to have g++ (GNU C++ compiler) pre-installed, check with: g++ --version
Also, no ebuild was found for libaspell-dev

Compiling MySQL 5.1.x with SphinxSE

First, download sources as recommended in the xPapers documentation.

MySQL Community Server 5.1.58 and Sphinx 0.9.9

Then follow the Sphinx documentation for compilation.

Configuring Apache and mod_perl

See the default config for Gentoo.