To all, Now that I have FOSSology up and running, I wanted to share my installation experiences - Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else (or can help augment the installation instructions)
And of course a big THANK YOU to the FOSSology team for helping me work thru the various problems I encountered .. FOSSology installation I will first start by saying its been a LONG time since I used Unix/Linux - So its taking a bit of time to get up to speed with some of the commands. First, I would say that trying to get FOSSology installed on Redhat 4.x takes a little more expertise than I have at the moment - and once I started running into issues around upgrading specific components (and the messages generated) - I realized that it would be more advantageous to find a 5.x environment Specific to 5.x - I was able to get a spare developer grade workstation. Overall, I found the installation documentation (at http://fossology.org/rhel5_1.1) to be very helpful - I did encounter a few instances where I needed to install additional files: 1. Libextractor reported a dependency of libucl.so.1 - which I found at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11438442/com/libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-6.1.i386.rpm.html 2. Sleuthkit reported a dependency on a Perl Date Library - the file was on the Redhat distro at - perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.1.noarch 3. For reference, you need to install the UCL package prior to UPX (UPX depends on UCL) 4. What I also learned is how to check if packages are installed - The way to do that: # rpm -qa php php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 # rpm -qa perl perl-5.8.8-27.el5 # rpm -qa httpd httpd-2.2.3-31.el5 # rpm -qa php php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 rpm -qa postgres postgresql.i386 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1 5. When it comes to installing FOSSology install itself, I HIGHLY recommend using YUM - it resolves a number of additional dependency files (but does so automagically ..) - If you have a firewall, you may need some assistance in modifying a file called yum.conf to talk to the appropriate proxy .. 6. Post FOSSology install After you install FOSSology - some post installation "checks" you should consider: A . Go to /var/local/lib/fossology/agents - VERIFY that License.bsam exists If License.bsam does NOT exist (You can get into FOSSology, but it won't do much and will generate log file errors) i. Verify that all prerequisite files have been installed ii. Try running fo-postinstall located in /usr/lib/fossoslogy (this should build License.bsam) B. Make sure to make the various configuration changes specified in ( http://fossology.org/rhel5_1.1) C. Start the scheduler : /etc/init.d/fossology start (detailed at http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/INSTALL ) D. Once FOSSology is installed, make sure that the underlying services will get started on the next reboot - Service status we make changes to included: Apache Web Server Tomcat Postgres
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