Comments on: Installing Lasso on CentOS 5

By: Gary Martellino

Gary Martellino — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:29 +0000

Thank you, this saved me on a different project where I had to get unicode support in PCRE. I appreciate you taking the time to document these steps.

By: henry

henry — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:27:38 +0000

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By: andhapp

andhapp — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:48:25 +0000

Hey man,
I just saw your timepicker jquery plugin. I just wanted to thank you for making it. Is it alright if I can go ahead and extend it and add unit tests. I will add it to github and send you a pointer to the repository. I just wanted to let you know. However, if you have any issues with this, please ping me. Sorry, I could not find your e-mail. Are you on github?

Regards

By: Steve Piercy

Steve Piercy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:15:33 +0000

Addendum to previous notes.

Step 10: It appears that pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.src.rpm comes with CentOS 5.4 (or perhaps I installed it when I updated the OS). In any case, the GUI interface for installing packages indicates that is my current version of PCRE.

Still don’t know whether skipping Step 4 has any negative effect.

By: Steve Piercy

Steve Piercy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:21 +0000

Note on Step 4, as of 2010-03-21:

wget ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/centos/4.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.52.i386.rpm
–2010-03-21 08:08:13– ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/centos/4.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.52.i386.rpm
=> `xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.52.i386.rpm’
Resolving mirror.switch.ch… 130.59.10.36, 2001:620:0:8::20
Connecting to mirror.switch.ch|130.59.10.36|:21… connected.
Logging in as anonymous … Logged in!
==> SYST … done. ==> PWD … done.
==> TYPE I … done. ==> CWD /pool/3/mirror/centos/4.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS …
No such directory `pool/3/mirror/centos/4.7/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS’.

Note on Step 10:
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.2/os/SRPMS/pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.src.rpm
–2010-03-21 08:24:41– http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.2/os/SRPMS/pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.src.rpm
Resolving mirrors.kernel.org… 204.152.191.39, 149.20.20.135
Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|204.152.191.39|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2010-03-21 08:24:41 ERROR 404: Not Found.

I omitted these two steps and so far I have had no problems running Lasso. PDF tags work, so I know java is working. As of this writing, the current version is 6u18.

Remember to turn off SELinux.

By: Tim Small

Tim Small — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:52:25 +0000

Installing Lasso 9 on RHEL5 (and CentOS5 as well, I assume):

yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk.i386 httpd libxslt libicu
wget http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel5/i386/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
rpm -i ../mod_fastcgi-2.4.6-1.rhel5.i386.rpm

^^ n.b. someone now has to support this for security updates! Configure the yum repo instead if you prefer.

rpm -i [lasso 9 rpm]

To get the java components working, I had to do this:

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/libverify.so /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so /usr/local/lib/

ln -s /usr/lib/libicuio.so.36 /usr/local/lib/libicuio.so.40

The last step is the only one which makes me nervous – since this is effectively saying “you know that version 40 libicuio library which you are trying to load (and is newer than the version which comes with CentOS / RHEL5) – well, just use the version 36 library instead which does come with RHEL5 instead, cos it’s just the same.”

Packaging / documentation bugs:

. Installs stuff under /usr/local/ (which should only be for non-packaged files)
. rpm install is non-silent
. There is no yum repository for the purposes of security updates
. Reliant on deprecated fastcgi module when used with Apache (and doesn’t work with replacement fcgi module)
. Doesn’t look for libjava etc. in the canonical location
. links to libicuio4, but does not provide an implementation (neither does the OS)

By: Eric3

Eric3 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:31:20 +0000

All has gone well so far for installing 8.5.6 on CentOS 5.4. The one change I made was, instead of placing lasso8.conf in /etc/httpd/conf and manually adding an include statement to httpd.conf; I instead placed it in conf.d, allowing it to be loaded automatically.

By: Jeremy Postlethwaite

Jeremy Postlethwaite — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:15:33 +0000

You do not need to uncomment requiretty for everyone. You can also use openjdk, so you can stay with yum:

mkdir -p /usr/local/src/lasso
cd /usr/local/src/lasso
wget http://download.lassosoft.com/pub/Lasso8.5/Lasso_Pro_8.5.6_Lin.tar.gz

tar xzf Lasso_Pro_8.5.6_Lin.tar.gz

cd Lasso\ Pro\ 8.5.6\ for\ Red\ Hat\ Enterprise\ Linux\ 4/

yum install libtool
yum install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
yum install openssl097a

rpm -ivh –nodeps Lasso-Service*.rpm

# Copy conf and module – You may need to add this to httpd.conf
cp /usr/local/Lasso\ Professional\ 8/Extensions/Lasso\ Connector\ for\ Apache\ 2.2/lasso8.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/lasso8.conf
cp /usr/local/Lasso\ Professional\ 8/Extensions/Lasso\ Connector\ for\ Apache\ 2.2/Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so /etc/httpd/modules/Lasso8ConnectorforApache2.2.so

# Setup timezone for lasso
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.default

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime

# Install xslt
yum install libxslt

# Install ldap
yum install compat-openldap

# Install java
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

ll /usr/lib/jvm
ll /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib

mkdir -p /usr/java/latest/lib

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386 /usr/java/latest/lib/i386

# Remove tty requirement for root
vi /etc/sudoers

Defaults requiretty
Defaults:root !requiretty

# Start
service lasso8service start

# Status
service lasso8service status

# Stop
service lasso8service stop

# Enable Lasso on start
chkconfig lasso8service on

# Check for errors
cat /tmp/LassoService8.out

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:12 +0000

Question … why is X11 required? I have a CentOS 5 server that is a minimal install and is administered either through the terminal or the web (via webmin/virtualmin) and would rather not install X11 is I don’t gotta …

By: Brian Loomis

Brian Loomis — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:30:47 +0000

Disabling the SE LINUX and rerunning the installer starts Lasso with no errors.