Amahi 7 installation

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


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.
  • Note that this installation is for x64 (64-bit) systems only.
  • also see Amahi_7_release_notes

Installation Guide Video!

Please see the video tutorial for installation

Installation Guide

Please reference the Amahi Documentation

x86 / 32-bit installations

Note that the Express disc is a x64 (64-bit) installation only.

For x86/32-bit installation intructions, see the Amahi 7 full DVD page.

Installing Amahi 7 for Testing

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

   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: Some apps are not working yet. There are a limited number of apps publicly available in Amahi 7/Fedora 19. 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:
 hda-create-db-and-user greyhole
  • load the schema
 mysql -u greyhole -pgreyhole  greyhole < /usr/share/greyhole/schema-mysql.sql
  • initialize the basic settings for Greyhole: configure /etc/greyhole.conf appropriately (that is up to your configuration)
  • enable permanently and start the greyhole service:
 systemctl enable greyhole.service
 systemctl start greyhole.service