Archive Trac setupdev

Setupdev

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setting up a development environment

• html5
  • a LAMPS stack is required to serve HTML
  • find the correct method for your distribution
  • you will need:
    • apache 2.4.6+
    • zeromq
    • php 5.5.2+ needs --enable-pcntl (not used under mod-perl, but needed for forking off jobs elsewise)
    • php pear package installer will also be needed and you will need use pear to install Mail, Mail_Mime
      • pecl to install uuid and zmq imagick
        • might be pecl install zmq-beta
        • if no libzmq error, possibly $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
    • after install, you can list installed packages with the pear list -a command, here's a list from a current working setup:

pear list -a
Installed packages, channel __uri:
==================================
(no packages installed)

Installed packages, channel doc.php.net:
========================================
(no packages installed)

Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
=========================================
Package          Version State
Archive_Tar      1.3.11  stable
Console_Getopt   1.3.1   stable
Mail             1.2.0   stable
Mail_Mime        1.8.9   stable
Net_SMTP         1.6.2   stable
Net_Socket       1.0.14  stable
PEAR             1.9.4   stable
Structures_Graph 1.0.4   stable
XML_Util         1.2.1   stable

Installed packages, channel pecl.php.net:
=========================================
Package Version State
imagick 3.1.2   stable
uuid    1.0.3   stable
zmq     1.1.2   beta

- mysql 5.1+
- mongodb 2.4.9+
- [32 bit OS mongodb has severe limitations, use 64 bit OS if at all possible]
- perl 5.18.1+
- needs CPAN JSON & Hash::Merge installed

• special edits should be made to php.ini:

[PHP]
post_max_size = 512M
upload_tmp_dir = /opt/httpd/uploads
upload_max_filesize = 512M
max_file_uploads = 200

- although your values may need to vary

• qt
  • qt versions need qwt for 2d plots and different qt targets need different qwt libraries ||qt||qwt|| ||qt3.3.x||qwt4.2 or greater but not qwt5|| ||qt4||qwt5.2.3 or greater but not qwt6|| ||qt5||qwt6.1 or greater||