[Building Sakai] Any Ubuntu packages, EC2 images or other easier ways to get a CLE install up and running on Linux?

[Zach A. Thomas]

I just published an automated setup process using vagrant and puppet. It's a little like having a VM image for Sakai, with the added benefit of being easier to reconfigure.
https://github.com/zathomas/sakai-vagrant

Give that a try and let me know if you have any trouble with it.

Zach
On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:14 PM, "Poindexter, David Ray" <davpoind at iupui.edu> wrote:

> Exactly my thoughts. Now, once we get the Maven3 multithreading building
> working correctly, building will become even less of an issue, not that
> it's really that much of an issue to begin with.
> 
> Honestly, running all the unit tests, starting with a clean .m2 repo, and
> doing a clean install, it takes, at most, 16 minutes for sakai trunk.
> That's really not too bad, and not even optimized.
> 
> I will say that either scripts, or a portable VMWare image would certainly
> help new users/devs. I know I'd love to have that back 9 months ago when I
> started with all this. So I can see how that would be super helpful, and I
> wouldn't mind chipping in on a script we could all share on github or
> something to that end.
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> On 2/22/13 4:04 PM, "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How would you customise a class that has been compiled?
>> 
>> I've got a set of instructions on a sheet that I can run on a new Linux
>> environment and have a fully functioning Sakai install up in about 15
>> minutes. 
>> 
>> I think we could spend more effort on a script to do it all, rather than
>> binaries. 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>> 
>> Gesendent von meinem iPhone
>> 
>> On 23/02/2013, at 8:00, Christian Seberino <cseberino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 02/22/2013 02:52 PM, Poindexter,       David Ray wrote:
>>>> I suppose that depends on what you're building and what your goals
>>>> are. You probably "could" get away with a small instance for testing or
>>>> demo and not build, but for anything             else, yes, you're
>>>> going to want to customize things and build the source. It's not too
>>>> scary.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> But why not just customize an installation based on ready made binaries?
>>> 
>>> cs
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