[FM Discuss] installation procedure

Wed Oct 27 08:51:49 PDT 2010

Claus,

I'm pleased you were able to get it working.  It gives me encouragement.

I did exactly the same thing you did, but I'm having the problems I
described on my other email to the list.  I do have all the needed
programs installed, including wkhtmltopdf.  The only thing I did
differently was to use sqlite3 rather than MySQL.  I don't think
that's the problem.

James Simmons

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Claus Denk <denk at us.es> wrote:
> James,
>
> I got it working! In my case it was mostly due to incomplete installations
> of programs that objavi uses. For example, the file
> /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf-static must exist (download from web).
>
> I installed objavi as http://localhost and on the same server booki on port
> 8000. Then as the booki server I included 127.0.0.1:8000 in the server list.
> Now start process from objavi (http//localhost), it gets the book list from
> your local booki installation. Select "book" as document type. Objavi
> executes a few points of the "todo" list, until an error ocurrs (check last
> traceback in the objavi-error.log in the apache directory). Locate the
> corresponding lines in fmbook.py and pdf.py that produce the error. Here you
> will see what command objavi tries to run, and you can try to run it
> yourself in a shell. Install necessary files and execute objavi again until
> all "todo" points execute correctly.
>
> kind regards, Claus
>
> On 10/26/2010 09:49 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>>
>> Claus,
>>
>> With your inspiration I too can get a booki-zip.  I use the URL from
>> this message in the OBJAVI error log:
>>
>> fetching zip from http://ip address:8000/export/book-title/export
>>
>> I put this in a web browser and it downloads what looks like a
>> perfectly good booki-zip.
>>
>> Now if I could only figure out what's happening to it after that.  The
>> log is no help at all.  It quits right after this message.
>>
>> My boss at work has seen the FLOSS Manuals (bound and printed) that
>> I've made and is interested in doing the same kind of thing with our
>> manuals at work.  If I could do a decent demo I'd be all set.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Claus Denk<denk at us.es>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> yep, same boat, and we don't know how to start the engine ;) I have been
>>> fiddling around today with objavi too, changing entries in the
>>> configuration, but it seems that I can only create the bookizip format.
>>> It
>>> really is difficult to advance without instructions, and the log files
>>> are
>>> no big help either.
>>>
>>> I guess we'll have to wait for some docs on how to set this up and test
>>> the
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> kind regards, Claus
>>>
>>> On 10/26/2010 05:00 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Claus,
>>>>
>>>> You and I are in the same boat, more or less.  I can't get OBJAVI to
>>>> work with my local copy of Booki either, but I know some of the
>>>> reasons.
>>>>
>>>> First, in spite of what the Booki docs say you WILL need your own
>>>> OBJAVI.  There is a file config.py in OBJAVI that has an array named
>>>> SERVER_DEFAULTS which needs to have an entry for every server that
>>>> OBJAVI works with.  Since your server at home isn't in that table it
>>>> uses a default value which won't work.
>>>>
>>>> If you have your own OBJAVI you can add an entry to this table using
>>>> the ip address and port of your own Booki as an entry name.  Be sure
>>>> to copy the 'booki.flossmanuals.net' entry.  The one named LOCALHOST
>>>> won't work unless you change the 'interface' value to Booki.  (Even
>>>> then it won't work, but it will be better).
>>>>
>>>> If you're installing OBJAVI on Fedora you will want to disable SELinux.
>>>>
>>>> I have the impression that Booki as it now exists only works on the
>>>> booki.cc server.  It isn't ready to install elsewhere yet.  I'm hoping
>>>> that the developers will try and install it on another computer and
>>>> document or resolve the problems that come up.  Right now there are
>>>> too many loose ends in the instructions.
>>>>
>>>> James Simmons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Claus Denk<denk at us.es>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/26/2010 01:02 AM, Aleksandar Erkalovic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Claus,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) manage.py would miss module sputnik. I have copied the sputnik dir
>>>>>>> into
>>>>>>> the /lib/booki dir and changed "sputnik" to "booki.sputnik" in
>>>>>>> settings.py,
>>>>>>> this worked. I have probably some path setup incorrect?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> you can find file env.sh.original in repository. You can copy it to
>>>>>> env.sh and with
>>>>>> ". ./env.sh" load before running Booki (good while doing development
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> testing. You don't have to define global setup or define this every
>>>>>> time you want to
>>>>>> start booki). You should have in PYTHONPATH your "booki/lib/"
>>>>>> directory. Also, you
>>>>>> should define environment variable
>>>>>> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=booki.settings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you tried to install booki with pypi before you might have problem.
>>>>>> Pypi installed it
>>>>>> under /usr/lib something and we changed structure of modules in newer
>>>>>> version.
>>>>>> Before it used to be "booki.sputnik", but now it is "booki" and
>>>>>> "sputnik" as two modules.
>>>>>> If you only used latest source from git repository you should not have
>>>>>> this problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much, editing env.sh and "source env.sh" solved my
>>>>> config
>>>>> problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) With sqlite it seemed to work now, but when trying to use mysql as
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> database, I get
>>>>>>> Error: One or more models did not validate:
>>>>>>> editor.book: "url_title": CharField cannot have a "max_length"
>>>>>>> greater
>>>>>>> than
>>>>>>> 255 when using "unique=True".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will check this with MySQL. We use PostgreSQL, but you can use
>>>>>> sqlite also (hard to do
>>>>>> schema upgrades with sqlite, when doing upgrades). Right now, there
>>>>>> are only couple of
>>>>>> places where we use raw SQL (because Django ORM does not support
>>>>>> JOINS), so support
>>>>>> for MySQL is possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, probably it is not very smart to have unique url title longer
>>>>>> then 255, i changed that in
>>>>>> hurry for one event, because while doing import of archive.org books i
>>>>>> realized their titles
>>>>>> can be extremely long. Will look into this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I changed the field length from 2500 to 250 in the model and now it
>>>>> works
>>>>> with mysql.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have one Problem persisting: I am not able to export to objavi. When
>>>>> pressing "Publish this book", the status bar "Your books is being sent
>>>>> to
>>>>> Objavi  ..." (should be "book", shouldn't it?) is advancing, but when
>>>>> it
>>>>> is
>>>>> apparently finished, nothing happens. Where is the exported book
>>>>> supposed
>>>>> to
>>>>> be stored? Or do I have to install my own version of objavi?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for your time,
>>>>>
>>>>> Claus
>>>>>
>>>>>
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