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Manual Installation

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Updated by ergonlogic on 03/23/2011 - 13:55
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Aegir installation seems difficult at first, but once you get around it, it's fairly simple. It's 3 basic steps::

  1. Install the system requirements
  2. Configure system requirements, which include:
  3. Install the backend (Drush & Provision) and the frontend (with hostmaster-install) with install.sh.

Note that these instructions setup a complete Aegir system. If you want to only setup a new remote web/db server, it should be sufficient to system requirements (step 1), configure them (step 2) and follow the Remote server how-to.

These instructions provide example commands for a Debian-like distribution, but should be fairly easy to adapt to other environments. In fact, this document is meant as a canonical reference that should work on every platform and that can be used for people porting Aegir to new platforms or installing on alien platform for which Aegir is not yet packaged.

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mccrodp
1:29pm Apr 17, 2013

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A few points just on installing drush with RedHat 6 that I seem to run in to every time.

When I try to discover the pear channel as aegir user I get could not create lock file: fopen(/usr/share/pear/.lock): failed to open stream: Permission denied

I also get the following after I make the aegir user owner of the .lock file

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
Discovering channel pear.drush.org over http:// failed with message: channel-add: adding Channel "pear.drush.org" to registry failed
Trying to discover channel pear.drush.org over https:// instead
Discovery of channel "pear.drush.org" failed (channel-add: Cannot open "https://pear.drush.org/channel.xml" (Connection to `pear.drush.org:443' failed: Connection refused))

I can add it with root user but when installing drush I get

pear install drush/drush-5.8.0
Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pear.drush.org" is not writeable by the current user

I always have to install drush as root and then modify ownership/permissions to aegir user. Is the documentation wrong, or am I missing something?

Also, for drush 5 it seems that 'http://download.pear.php.net/package/Console_Table-1.1.3.tgz' is a dependency!