WELCOME

These are the installation instructions for LXRng, such as they are.


DEPENDENCIES

(Package names for Ubunty Feisty in brackets, where applicable.)

* Freetext index engine of your choice.  Presently supported:
  - Search::Xapian

* Database and DBI modules of your choice.  Presently supported:
  - DBD::Pg [libdbd-pg-perl]

* HTML/Web Perl modules
  - CGI::Simple [libcgi-simple-perl]
  - CGI::Ajax [libcgi-ajax-perl]
  - HTML::Entities [libhtml-parser-perl]
  - Template [libtemplate-perl]

* (For gzip content transfer compression: PerlIO::gzip)

* "Exuberant ctags", runnable as ctags-exuberant somewhere in the
   current $PATH. [exuberant-ctags]

* (For generation of png icons from svg source: inkscape [inkscape])

* (For PDF generation: pdflatex [texlive texlive-latex-recommended
  texlive-pdfetex texlive-fonts-extra lmodern])


INSTALLATION

* Create suitable database
  $ createdb lxrng

* Add www-data (or equivalent HTTP daemon user) as database user.  No
  special privileges should be afforded.
  $ createuser www-data

* Copy the lxrng.conf-dist to lxrng.conf and edit as desired.

* Create database tables
  $ lxr-db-admin <my-tree> --init

* Cross reference your source repository
  $ lxr-genxref <my-tree>

* Set up apache config
  Determine values for
    @@LXRURL@@
      Subdirectory of your web site to show the LXRng interface,
      "", "/lxr", "/tools/lxr" or other.
    @@LXRROOT@@
      Installation path of LXRng suite.

  Choose cgi or mod_perl mode of operation.  Based on 
  apache2-site.conf-dist-[cgi|mod_perl], generate apache2-site.conf
  to suit your local requirements.

  Add to global Apache2 configuration:
  # ln -s <lxr-path>/apache2-site.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/010-lxrng
  # /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
  (Or equivalent, depending on operating system (distribution) flavor.)

* (Generate PNG icons)
  $ make -C <lxr-path>/webroot/.static/gfx

* Point web browser to configured web location.