[IIAB] iiab problems

[Braddock]

Already done committed and tested.  :-) 

Joel Steres <joel.steres at ymobility.com> wrote:
>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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