Amahi 7 installation

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	This page is updated as Amahi 7 on Fedora 19 reaches release; changes expected

Installing Amahi 7 (Express-Disc)

• The express-disc installation method is the primary installation method for Amahi 7 with Fedora 19 and as such, upgrades from prior versions of Fedora are not advised, since very much has changed since older versions of Fedora.
• This installation method works with both physical and virtual machine systems.
• Separate wiki articles are in the works for transitioning old storage/ shares to new installations.

Please see the video tutorial for installation
(Full Textual Installation Guide coming soon )

Installing Amahi 7 for Testing

NOTE: for installing Amahi 7 for development, visit the Fedora 19 page

• Install Fedora 19 minimal, 32 or 64 bits (desktop should be OK, LiveCD may not work as it includes different stuff)
  • one way to do this is: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/19/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-19-x86_64-netinst.iso
  • boot, choose Install Fedora, choose language; then in software selection choose "minimal install";
  • this is not the default and is at the bottom of the list. Don't forget to remove the cd after installing and before rebooting.
• After a minimal install one needs to create a regular user

   useradd -c 'Amahi User' -g users -G wheel yourusername

• and the password

   passwd yourusername

• Install Amahi repo by hand with:

  rpm -Uvh http://f19.amahi.org/noarch/hda-release-6.9.0-1.noarch.rpm

• Get the mariadb base packages (this is to avoid dependency conflicts)

  yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server

• If mariadb gives conflicts with mysql, uninstall all mysql stuff:

  yum -y erase 'mysql*'

• Try installing both hda-ctl and hda-platform. This should install a lot of dependencies with them

   yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform

• If that works, and only if that works, try this as root:

  hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

• When that fails (and it will), please fpaste the log (you may have to yum -y install fpaste). The log should be in

 /root/hda-install-*.log

Installing the Desktop

After this is installed, there is no desktop. You can see what groups of packages you can install with

    yum group list

One of the popular ones is GNOME Desktop environment. To install that you do:

     yum group install 'GNOME Desktop'

Needless to say, there are a few other environments you can choose to install besides GNOME.

Apps

IMPORTANT: Apps are not working yet. No apps are publicly available in Amahi 7/Fedora 19 yet. We want to keep our attention on the base system before we turn our attention to Apps, which can be very distracting.

Greyhole

You can install the Greyhole stack with:

  yum -y install hda-greyhole

However, you have to configure it by hand:

• set up a mysql database and user to access it
• load the schema
• initialize the basic settings for Greyhole