Upgrading our training systems to all the current stable versions
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2014-04-07 20:20:03 - Graham EllisProgramming languages are the eye of the storm in software development - the calm in the midst of the gales, an area where changes are gradual and gentle. It really needs to be that way, for who wants to pay for development of code when it's going to have a short shelf life?
And so developers write code that's leading edge code and algorithms, but with languages that are merely modern rather than leading edge or bleeding edge. Code needs to work rather than be too clever to work. So I find myself only difting of late into Python 3 courses and still doing a lot of Python 2, and Perl 6 still sits on the horizon.
But operating systems march on, and the version we've been running on our laptops has been getting long in the tooth, grey in the hair, and has started to have bad breath. Still a fine operting system, but it's embarrassing when it tells your delegates it's rather out of date. So I'm taking the opportunity of few days clear of customer facing work to upgrade the underlying Linux release to the most recent "Long Term Support" version on our training systems, and install recent versions of the laguages and servers we teach on them too. A useful exercise, and I'm logging it here so that I can refer back to procedures later and clarify versions and options used for our delegates. But the log will be in a summary form - you'll be able to follow it if you've been through our Linux training ;-) ... or very likely if you've not as well.
Release is Ubuntu 12.04.2, install from USB stick (from Pen Drive)
Other software to be added - Rails, CodeIgniter, Django
0. Set up distribution on pen drive
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/creating-an-ubuntu-live-usb-from-cd/
1. Backup old trainee account
2. Install from pen drive ...
SD4 for main OS
Main disc for boot
final slice for swap
no network
account Graham Ellis / Trainee / abc123
3. Enable networking
4. Install langauges (perl 5.14.2
and python 2.7.3 and gcc 4.6.3 already present)
sudo apt-get install lua5.2
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1
sudo apt-get install php5-cli
sudo apt-get install python3-mimimal
sudo apt-get install tk8.5
sudo apt-get install expect
sudo apt-get install rakudo
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
5. Install a default set of servers
sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-core-5.5
sudo apt-get install mysql-client-core-5.5
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
for PHP build ...
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
6. Download
httpd-2.2.27.tar.gz
httpd-2.4.9.tar.gz
php-5.5.11.tar.gz
apache-tomcat-8.0.5.tar.gz
apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz
and from www.wellho.net
latmjdemo.war
data.xyz.tgz
trainee.tgz
(All these in downloads.tgz on the pen drive)
7. Set up root account ((and test)) and add a reference local directory
sudo passwd root
su -
mkdir /usr/ref
exit
8. Test base installs / set up a reference set
cd
mkdir ref
cd ref
8a) - httpd
tar xzf ../Downoads/httpd-2.2.27.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.27
./configure --prefix=/usr/ref/apache2 --enable-rewrite --enable-so --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-http --enable-proxy-balancer --enable-proxy-ajp --enable-dav --enable-info
make
as root
make install
cd /usr/ref/apache2/conf and change to port 81
cd ../bin
./apachectl start
from a browser
visit localhost:81
and when tested, as root
./apachectl stop
8b) - php
tar xzf ../Downloads/php-5.5.11.tar.gz
cd php-5.5.11
./configure --prefix=/usr/ref --with-apxs2=/usr/ref/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-mysqli
make
as root
make install
cp /home/trainee/ref/php-5.5.11/php.ini-development /usr/ref/lib/php.ini
check that httpd config file contains
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
and that it maps php files
<FilesMatch "\.php[0-9]?$">
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
At /usr/ref/apache2/htdocs/test.php add
<?php phpinf0(); ?>
cd /usr/ref/apache2/bin
./apachectl start
from a browser
visit localhost:81/test.php
and when tested, as root
./apachectl stop
8c) Tomcat
as root
cd /usr/ref
tar xzf ~trainee/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.53.tar.gz
ln -s apache-tomcat-7.0.53/ tomcat
cd tomcat
./bin/startup.sh
from a browser
visit localost:8080Guadalajara completed today ... Albany, Caerphilly, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Manticore to be completed tomorrow. Dharhan has disc drive issues; Brugges a cracked screen (and I will probably leave it as a "control" system. Izmir and Juneau (our old internal staff systems - smart blue covers rather than smart yellow ones) may also be brought into the fold, and we have a spare system to install too; I'll probably rename Manticore into the "places I have trained" series - poetic license and I'll call in Kintbury, which is near enough to Newbury and the final machine need to start with an "L" - it's going to have to be called "Liverpool"!