edX Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit Installation

1)sudo apt-­get update ­-y

2)sudo apt-­get upgrade ­-y

3)reboot

4)sudo apt-get install -y build-essential software-properties-common python-software-properties curl git-core libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-pip python-apt python-dev

5)wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/0.8/ez_setup.py ­O ­ | sudo python

6)sudo pip install ­­--upgrade pip

7)sudo pip install ­­--upgrade virtualenv

8)cd /var/tmp

9)git clone ­b release https://github.com/edx/configuration

10)cd /var/tmp/configuration 11)sudo pip install ­-r requirements.txt

12)cd /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks

13. sudo ansible-­playbook ­-c local ./edx_sandbox.yml ­-i "localhost,"

or instead of localhost you can use serverip as below

sudo ansible­-playbook -­c local ./edx_sandbox.yml -­i “x.x.x.x,"

Issues in edX Ubuntu 12.04 Installation

1. Error in creating database for edxapp:

TASK: [edxlocal | create a database for edxapp] *******************************

Sol

create file .my.cnf similar to following:

more /root/.my.cnf

[client]

user=root

password=xxxxx

2)Error in installing mongodb:

TASK: [mongo | install mongo server and recommends] ***************************

msg: 'apt­-get install 'mongodb­10gen=2.4.7' ' failed: E: There are problems and -­y was used

without –force-yes

Sol

a)sudo apt-­get remove mongodb­-clients

b)sudo apt­-get install mongodb-­10gen=2.4.7

3)Error in installing npm:

msg: 'apt­-get install 'npm' 'npm' 'gettext' ' failed:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

npm : Depends: nodejs (>= 0.6.19~dfsg1­3) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-js­dev

Depends: node­-node-­uuid but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­request but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­mkdirp but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­minimatch but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­semver but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-ini but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-graceful­fs but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-abbrev but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-nopt but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-fstream but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­rimraf but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-­tar but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node­-which but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Sol

a)sudo apt­-get remove nodejs nodejs-­dev

b)Download nodejs_0.6.12~dfsg1­1ubuntu1_i386.deb (663.7 KiB) from

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/i386/nodejs/0.6.12~dfsg1­1ubuntu1

click the package and install through Ubuntu Software Center by clicking install button

c)Download nodejs­-dev from http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/nodejs­dev/download

(ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu or any other )

click the package and install through Ubuntu Software Center by clicking install button

d)sudo apt­-get install npm

4)Error in installing nltk

Sol

sudo /edx/app/ora/venvs/ora/bin/python -­m nltk.downloader ­-d /edx/var/ora/nltk_data all

5)Error in installing pika

msg:Command /usr/bin/git clone -­q git://github.com/pika/pika.git /edx/app/xqueue/venvs/xqueue/src/pika/

failed with error code 128 in None

Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

:stderr: fatal: unable to connect to github.com:

Sol

a)sudo gedit /edx/app/xqueue/xqueue/requirements.txt

replace

­-e git://github.com/pika/pika.git@a731347fc0#egg=pika

with

pika

b)sudo gedit /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks/roles/xqueue/tasks/deploy.yml

and comments the following

Do A Checkout

#­ name: xqueue | git checkout xqueue repo into {{app_base_dir}}

git: dest={{xqueue_code_dir}} repo={{xqueue_source_repo}} version={{xqueue_version}}

6)Error in installing discern

IOError: Could not build the egg.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Cleaning up...

Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /edx/app/discern/ve

nvs/discern/build/MySQL-­python

Storing debug log for failure in /edx/app/discern/.pip/pip.log

Sol

a)cd /edx/app/discern

b)git clone https://github.com/defance/discern.git

Or

a)sudo gedit /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks/roles/discern/defaults/main.yml

b)changed the value of variable 'discern_source_repo' to 'https://github.com/defance/discern.git'

7. Internal Server Error in CMS running

Sol

a) cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx­platform

• list all manage.py commands ­

sudo ­-u www-­data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws help

• create a new user ­

sudo ­-u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --­­settings aws create_user -e [email protected]

• set or change password ­

sudo -­u www-­data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws changepassword user

• set user to staff ­

sudo ­-u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws set_staff [email protected]

• launch the django shell ­

sudo -­u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws shell

• create superuser ­

sudo ­u www-­data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws create_user ­-e

[email protected]

sudo -­u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws changepassword user

sudo -­u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms ­­--settings aws shell

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

me = User.objects.get(username="user")

me.is_superuser = True

me.save()

• run migrations ­

sudo -­u www­-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms syncdb ­­ --migrate ­­ --settings aws

8. Error in discern and ease requirement installation

Sol

a)sudo gedit /edx/app/discern/discern/requirements.txt

replace

­-e git+https://github.com/edx/ease.git@965a61b0701bb93bebdcd7173c3538008a1ea009#egg=ease

with

ease

c)sudo gedit /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks/roles/discern/tasks/deploy.yml

d) just comments following

#­ name: git checkout discern repo into discern_code_dir

git: dest={{ discern_code_dir }} repo={{ discern_source_repo }} version={{ discern_version }}

9. Error in edxapp sync and migrate

msg:ImportError: No module named dateutil.relativedelta

Sol sudo pip install python­-dateutil

and then follow

a)Download python­-dateutil-­2.2.tar.gz (md5) from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python­dateutil

b) extract and run command

cd /path of folder python­dateutil­2.2/ and

sudo python setup.py install

c) Copy the dateutils folder into /edx/app/ora/venvs/ora/local/lib/python2.7/site­packages/

d)copy folder python_dateutil­2.2­py2.7.egg­info and paste into

/edx/app/ora/venvs/ora/local/lib/python2.7/site­packages/celery/dateutil

10)TASK: [forum | test that the required service are listening] ******************

failed: [localhost] => (item={'host': u'localhost', 'port': u'9200', 'service': 'elasticsearch'}) =>

{"elapsed": 30, "failed": true, "item": {"host": "localhost", "port": "9200", "service":

"elasticsearch"}}

msg: Timeout when waiting for localhost:9200

soln

sudo add­-apt­-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-­get install oracle-­java7­-installer