[Server-devel] Newbie problems

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Varun Arora<futuregenious at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey XS Dev team,

Hey Varun!

> I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you
> guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with
> installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue:

Great to hear you're in the Niue team - thanks for the work you're doing!

> I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. on
> installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run

The XS disk doesn't really include any of those. You can install them
from online yum repositories after the initial install.

Note that you _do not need mysql_. Moodle will work with PostgreSQL.
For many reasons, PostgreSQL is a better option for the specific needs
of the XS.

If you want to use Moodle, grab the packages that will transform your
0.5.2 into a 0.6-beta by doing

  yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update

which will install a Moodle that autoconfigures itself. After that,
upgrade the Browse.xo on the XOs and Moodle will auto-login users
(that have registered).

> I waited for several hours on the IRC channel for help, but there were only
> a couple of folks on.

The people active around the XS are mostly email-people rather than
irc-people :-) ask here and we'll come to your help...



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