[IIAB] iiab problems

[Joel Steres]

I wonder if putting a version constraint on the package in the
requirements file would alleviate the upgrade requirements?


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
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> Hi Tony,
> I went ahead and installed XS 0.7 on CentOS 6.2 in a VirtualBox
> machine from the ISO at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software
>
> I was able to get iiab-server running with the following (as root):
>
> yum install python-pip gcc python-devel xz-devel
> pip install Internet-in-a-Box
> pip install --upgrade SQLAlchemy
> tar xvzf IIAB_QuickStart_Sampler_20130809.tgz
> /etc/init.d/iptables stop
>
> iiab-server
>
> Browse to http://192.168.1.196:25000/iiab
>
> That is mostly taken from the INSTALL.txt directions for Fedora.
>
> The only weird extra thing was that I needed to upgrade SQLAlchemy
> explicitly.
>
> Of course you will need internet access to get gcc and the other
> pre-requisites, which is needed to build both backports.lzma and
> SQLAlchemy.
>
> The only thing that doesn't work is Wikipedia.  I'll look into that.
> Apparently we are still Python 2.6 compatible.
>
> - -braddock
>
>
> On 08/13/2013 12:01 PM, Braddock wrote:
>> On 08/13/2013 04:42 AM, Tony Anderson wrote:
>>> I installed it on my Ubuntu laptop. The install seemed to go
>>> smoothly. However, when I run iiab-sever, I get
>> [...]
>>> ImportError: No module named flaskext.babel
>>
>> Hi Tony, Thanks for catching this.  It was a versioning issue with
>> the latest version of the Flask-Babel dependency.
>>
>> I have fixed it in version 0.4.9 and pushed it to PyPi just now.
>> It should work for you if you run:
>>
>> sudo pip uninstall Internet-in-a-Box sudo pip install
>> Internet-in-a-Box
>>
>>
>>> The more important problem is on the schoolserver.
>>
>> What version of CentOS is School Server 0.7 based on?  Is there an
>> ISO for XS 0.7 we could install to a virtual machine for testing
>> here?
>>
>>> The schoolserver is not connected to the internet so yum is not
>>> useful.
>>
>> Is it normal to install a school server without internet access at
>> install time?  There are several approaches we could work out if
>> that is the case.  We could build a local repository of RPMs if
>> that is necessary, or make a python virtualenv with all of the
>> dependencies in one tarball.
>>
>>> I need to set up the needed rpms and install. In addition, the
>>> XS-0.7 has python 2.6.
>>
>> I have not tested with python 2.6 for several months, it is very
>> likely broken - but probably easy for us to fix.
>>
>>> The catch is backports.lzma which requires gcc. Daniel did not
>>> include Are you using this to decompress files and could the
>>> lzma be replaced
>>
>> backports.lzma is our most troublesome dependency, unfortunately it
>> is necessary to read the ZIM file format that all the wikipedia
>> dumps from the Kiwix community are in.  We have tried alternatives
>> but nothing really cuts it.
>>
>>> this in the build. Unfortunately, rpm reports missing
>>> dependencies. When I try to satisfy them, I am getting
>>> conflicting files
>>
>> Sounds like you are in "dependency hell" independent of IIAB.
>>
>> We will get you up and running one way or another.
>>
>> -braddock
>>
>>
>>> I could possibly build a line Fedora and use yum. I am a little
>>> nervous about the difference in dependencies between CentOS and
>>> Fedora. The other option is to plug the school server into the
>>> Internet. Currently my access is via wifi from the campground so
>>> I would need to log in (the provider gives a username/password
>>> to login via Google redirect with the connection expiring if it
>>> is not used for some period of time - download speed is good).
>>
>>> My intent is to set up IIAB on the schoolserver as a wsgi
>>> service. This is what I am doing with the Django framework for
>>> the library. I would like to have a button (link) on the Browse
>>> Activity home page that does something like
>>> http://schoolserver/knowledge or http://schoolserver/iiab.
>>> Perhaps the setup could be simplified for this specific case.
>>
>>> I installed x-sendfile and got no complaints. However, when I
>>> try these urls I am getting 404. I tried executing iiab-wsgi in
>>> /var/www/ but got
>>
>>> [root at schoolserver html]# python iiab.wsgi Traceback (most
>>> recent call last): File "iiab.wsgi", line 4, in <module> import
>>> pkg_resources File
>>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655,
>>> in <module> working_set.require(__requires__) File
>>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in
>>>  requires needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line
>>> 546, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req)
>>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: backports.lzma
>>
>>> The script is not run by wsgi.
>>
>>> I installed /etc/iiab.conf as follows:
>>
>>> [DEFAULT] knowledge_dir = /library/knowledge
>>> search_for_knowledge_dir = False
>>
>>> I don't know if you can make anything of this mess, but I would
>>> appreciate any help you can give.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>
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