Sorry for the delay, this change has been made.  Does anyone else have
OSX related suggestions for the install docs?

G

On 12-04-24 12:27 PM, Brian O'Hagan wrote:
> Thank you, Tobias & Greg. (Also, apologies if this should have been 
> originally sent to matterhorn-users!)
> 
> First to Tobias' question:
> 
> did you install Matterhorn as a service? That part of the documentation is 
> likely outdated, as Jaime Hodge left this part of the documentation and 
> nobody contributed to it so far.
> 
> To take an adopter's perspective in reading the docs: Not clear, based on the 
> OS X documentation [1], if I was installing as a service. (For comparison, 
> the Linux distro docs clearly notes running MH as a service [2].) Is it 
> possible to run MH as a service on OS X? Is the language the same for OS X 
> and Linux?
> 
> Second, to Greg's offer:
> 
> I've listed below the specific configurations that I had to add to my local 
> machine in order to get Matterhorn 1.3 running on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. May be 
> worth comparing with additional Mac OS X Lion users for further verification. 
> --
> 
> A) Under Prepare, Item 4 Configure environment: the docs refer to 
> .bash_profile but I think that MacPorts creates and references .profile .
> 
> B) Under Run, Item 1: In creating
> 
> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.opencastproject.matterhorn.plist
> 
> I had to leave the string for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH empty.
> 
> C) Edited /opt/matterhorn/felix/bin/start_matterhorn.sh and added 
> '-Dgosh.args=--noi' to the JAVA_OPTS. (As mentioned in previous email)
> 
> I hope that this helps!
> Brian
> 
> [1] http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MHDOC/Install+Source+OS+X+v1.3
> 
> [2] http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MHDOC/Install+Source+Linux+v1.3
> 
> On Apr 23, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Greg Logan wrote:
> 
> On 12-04-23 09:27 AM, Tobias Wunden wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> did you install Matterhorn as a service? That part of the documentation is 
> likely outdated, as Jaime Hodge left this part of the documentation and 
> nobody contributed to it so far.
> 
> A "patch" to the docs is always welcome, and yes, the install docs shold be 
> and actually *are* updated with every release. It seems though that the Mac 
> OS X service part is constantly neglected.
> 
> Considering this is a bug in the docs, I'd be willing to port the
> changes over into 1.3 if Brian can point them out!
> 
> G
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> 
> On 23.04.2012, at 16:02, "Brian O'Hagan" 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> In follow-up to the java issues I experienced last week [1]:
> 
> After build was successful & java decencies were resolved, I ran into another 
> issue getting the Matterhorn framework started on OS X (error: Opencast 
> Matterhorn: gosh: stopping framework). In the end, what solved the problem on 
> my dev machine was to add '-Dgosh.args=--noi' to 
> '/opt/matterhorn/felix/bin/start_matterhorn.sh'. However, it took me quite 
> some time to figure this out–Google-ing the error codes; digging through past 
> Opencast mailing list posts [2].
> 
> In short, because of the java and start-up issues, it took me the better part 
> of 2.5 weeks to get 1.3 running on OS X (working off and on during may spare 
> time). The information that was needed to resolve the issues were not present 
> in the install docs for OS X.
> 
> So my question would be whether the install documentation for 1.3 (and 
> subsequent versions) should be updated with additional info so that the OS X 
> install process is less cumbersome and time intensive. This may require 
> pointing out OS X specific config items (i.e. the java problem I ran into; 
> java environment variables) in the install docs. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
> 
> [1] 
> http://opencast.3480289.n2.nabble.com/Ques-on-Installing-1-3-or-1-4-x-from-source-on-Mac-OS-X-td7473576.html
> 
> [2] 
> http://lists.opencastproject.org/pipermail/matterhorn-users/2011-April/000665.html
> 
> ---
> Brian O'Hagan
> Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
> ccnmtl.columbia.edu/staff/ohagan<http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/staff/ohagan>
> twitter: @britubes
> skype: bohaganjr
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Matterhorn mailing list
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe please email
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Matterhorn mailing list
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe please email
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Matterhorn mailing list
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe please email
> [email protected]
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 


Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
Matterhorn mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn


To unsubscribe please email
[email protected]
_______________________________________________

Reply via email to