[Sputnik-list] Installation problems with sputnik_install_8_07_07.sh

[Yuri Takhteyev]

Hi, Christian,

> I'd like to install Sputnik but had no luck on Mac OS X 10.4 (x86) and
> reported this already as a bug report (#000055). However, maybe someone can
> help anyway. I used the most recent installer sputnik_install_8_07_07.sh,
> which failed:
>
> Updating manifest for /scratch/tmp/sputnik/rocks/
> sputnik_install_8_07_07.sh: line 13: kepler/htdocs/sputnik.ws: No such file
> or directory

When was the last time you tried this?  There were a few problems with
the main LuaRocks repository a few days ago and Kepler installation
was failing because of that.  This would produce the error that you
describe.  This issue has been fixed since and Sputnik seems to
install fine on Linux at this moment.  (I don't have access to an OSX
machine right now.)

Can you try again now and let us know if you still experience the same problem?

> Can anyone confirm the problem? I'd be also comfortable installing from GIT
> but rather would not install all Lua libraries manually. So, if there is
> such a way I'd be interested to hear about it. (I do know Lua but I'm new to
> Sputnik.)

Yeah, don't get into manual installation of Lua yet.  Installing
Sputnik from git is easiest if you first install Kepler the normal
way, so let's get this out of the way first.

It is possible that Sputnik installation script is a bit
Linux-centered, but we can fix this perhaps.  Note that the basic
installation process is very simple conceptually:

1. Download the Kepler installer (wget
http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/3468/kepler-install-1.1-1, but
you might want to try using curl instead).
2. Run it with parameters --prefix=$SPUTNIK (where $SPUTNIK is the
directory where you want to install everything) and --without-readline
(unless you have readline installed)
3. Install Sputnik using LuaRocks (./bin/luarocks
--from=http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/rocks/earth install sputnik)

The rest of the script just creates the files
./kepler/htdocs/sputnik.ws and sputnik.cgi

Step 2 was failing a few days ago because the repository was corrupt.
It should be fine now.  Try doing those steps one at a time and tell
me where you run into problems.

 - yuri

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