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Installation

What is HUBzero?

HUBzero is a platform used to create dynamic web sites for scientific research and educational activities. With HUBzero, you can easily publish your research software and related educational materials on the web. Powerful middleware serves up interactive simulation and modeling tools via your web browser. These tools can connect you with rendering farms and powerful Grid computing resources.

Minimum System Requirements

HUBzero installations require one or more dedicated physical hosts running Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. In particular there are version specific requirements on mysql (5.1), python (2.6) and php (5.3).

Other distributions might theoretically work with some modification, although they would be totally unsupported.

A typical starter HUBzero installation might consist of a single physical server with dual 64-bit quad-core CPUs, 16 Gigabytes of RAM and a terabyte of disk.

It is possible to run HUBzero inside of a virtual machine such as ones created by VMware and VirtualBox. While fully functional there will would significant performance and resource limitations in such an environment. For demonstration or development purposes we often create VM images with less than a gigabyte of RAM and 5 gigabytes of disk. While fully functional, these virtual machines would only be suitable for a single user doing development or testing.

Target Audience

This document and the installation and maintenance of a HUBzero system has a target audience of experienced Linux administrators (preferably experienced with Debian GNU/Linux).

How To Get Source Code

This is optional

You'll find most of the source code within the web root of a working hub. But you can get source code for the middleware and all other parts of HUBzero by retrieving the source code packages using the debian package manager. To do so, first, update your package mechanism to pull packages from our HUBzero repository (codename 'manny' for this release). Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line::

deb-src http://packages.hubzero.org/deb manny main contrib non-free

Then, install the hubzero archive key so that your system can verify packages from the hubzero archive. Run the following command as root:

wget http://packages.hubzero.org/deb/hubzero-signing-key.asc -q -O - | apt-key add -

Once the public key for http://packages.hubzero.org has been installed, you can request the hubzero source code for each package:

apt-get source packageName

where packageName is the desired package from the table below.

Package List

The following packages (subject to change): are available from the HUBzero repository for this release. Not all are necessarily used for any given installation.

Package Name Purpose
hubzero-app Command line tool to manage installation/publishing of HUBzero apps
hubzero-app-workspace HUBzero App providing a lightweigth Linux desktop, for app/tool development
hubzero-chuse HUBzero graphical front end to the user environment manager 'use'
hubzero-cli HUBzero command line interface
hubzero-cms The HUBzero Content Management System (based on Joomla! framework)
hubzero-expire-sessions Expires unused app/tool sessions
hubzero-filexfer Transfer files between App Sessions and user's desktop
hubzero-filexfer-xlate Support daemon for the filexfer program
hubzero-firewall HUBzero firewall that protects app/tool sessions
hubzero-forge Creates project areas for tool development
hubzero-icewm Linux ICE window manager configuration, used in workspaces
hubzero-icewm-captive Linux ICE window manager specially crafted to support tools in a sessions
hubzero-icewm-themes The HUBzero Linux ICE window manager theme, used in workspaces
hubzero-invokeapp HUBzero application invoke script
hubzero-mailgateway HUBzero mail gateway
hubzero-metrics HUBzero metrics support package
hubzero-mw-client HUBzero middleware - client
hubzero-mw-service HUBzero middleware - execution host session manager
hubzero-mw-session HUBzero middleware - per session tools
hubzero-openldap OpenLDAP configuration package for HUBzero
hubzero-policyrcd HUBzero policy-rc.d for invoke-rc.d
hubzero-python HUBzero python API module
hubzero-rappture The Rapid APPlication infrastrucTURE toolkit for building scientific tools
hubzero-rappture-session Session support packages for Rappture
hubzero-ratpoison-captive Linux window manager, used in app/tool sessions
hubzero-submit-client HUBzero submit client
hubzero-submit-common HUBzero submit common python library
hubzero-submit-condor HUBzero condor build for hubzero-submit
hubzero-submit-distributor HUBzero middleware submit distributor
hubzero-submit-pegasus HUBzero pegasus build for hubzero-submit
hubzero-submit-server HUBzero job submission server
hubzero-subversion HUBzero Subversion support package
hubzero-telequotad Disk quota monitor
hubzero-textifier HUBzero textifier
hubzero-texvc Helper utility to generate math fomulas for wiki markup
hubzero-trac HUBzero Trac support package
hubzero-trac-mysqlauthz Plug-in for MySQL user auth in project development areas
hubzero-twm-captive Linux TWM window manager, used in app/tool sessions
hubzero-use Command for configuring the environment within a workspace
hubzero-use-apps HUBzero apps environment for 'use'
hubzero-usermap File permission mapping FUSE filesystem used by WebDAV
hubzero-vncproxy HUBzero VNC proxy helper  
hubzero-vncproxyd HUBzero VNC proxyserver  
hubzero-webdav HUBzero WebDAV support package  
libapache2-vncproxy HUBzero vncproxy module for apache2-mpm-prefork  
tightvnc-java Modified VNC Client that receives app/tool sessions within a web browser
vnc4server Modified VNC Server that sends app/tool sessions to the web browser

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