Installation Support on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

[Jason Stephenson]

With the approaching release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I decided to get a jump on things and set up a virtual machine to test Evergreen installation with the alpha of this release. Everything installs and seems to work well with some modifications to the src/extras/Makefile.install in both OpenSRF and Evergreen. I have also updated the READMEs to reflect the few places that ubuntu-precise differs from ubuntu-lucid.

The code branches for the changes are in the working repos for each:

git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/OpenSRF.git

git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/Evergreen.git

The branches use the same name for convenience:

collab/dyrcona/precise_pangolin

The Evergreen Makefile.install changes also include changes to the existing generic_ubuntu and ubuntu-lucid targets. Some of this was required because almost everything needed by Evergreen is available as a package on Ubuntu Precise. Also, I made a change to the packages installed on Ubuntu Lucid. RPC::XML::Function needs to be installed in order for the XML-RPC gateway to work. I consider this a correction of changes made in a patch submitted back in May.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Chris Sharp has tested the installation on Lucid and signed off on the changes.

The OpenSRF branch with his sign off is in

user/pines/precise_pangolin

Because of some fun times that we had with git and because I signed off on his typo fix in Evergreen's Makefile.install, his signoffs are in

collab/dyrcon/precise_pangolin in the working/Evergreen repo.

If you checked that one out before you might want to make a new branch, since I had to force push.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

doh... wish comments had an edit button.

collab/dyrcona/precise_pangolin in working/Evergreen

[Dan Scott (denials)]

Thanks, Jason and Chris! I have committed your work to master in OpenSRF and Evergreen.