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Bug 80 - Document HOWTO install on Red Hat systems.
Summary: Document HOWTO install on Red Hat systems.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.0
Hardware: Other other
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: 0.7.0
Assignee: Ville Skyttä
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Blocks: 78
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Reported: 2002-11-23 23:25 UTC by Terje Bless
Modified: 2004-09-16 16:59 UTC (History)
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Description Terje Bless 2002-11-23 23:25:01 UTC
Document how to install the Validator on Red Hat systems.
Comment 1 Terje Bless 2002-11-30 14:53:33 UTC
Mass change documentation bug to target 1.0.
Comment 2 Olivier Thereaux 2004-09-06 06:28:03 UTC
covered by http://validator.w3.org/docs/install#install-package
or is that not sufficient?
Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2004-09-15 18:28:43 UTC
Strictly speaking, Red Hat systems are not covered, but Fedora Core ones are.
http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/source/#rpm

Red Hat Linux <= 9 has too old OpenSP, so it falls into the "generic unix" case.
 The FC packages can probably be used as-is on Red Hat Enterprise Linuxen >= 3,
but I don't have a system to verify that on (that's why it's not in the
documentation).

Setting fixed, please reopen and assign to me if you think this needs more work.
Comment 4 Terje Bless 2004-09-15 18:37:09 UTC
If I can get you access to a RHEL 3.0 ES box, can you verify and update the docs?
Comment 5 Ville Skyttä 2004-09-15 19:15:29 UTC
Ok.
Comment 6 Terje Bless 2004-09-15 19:56:10 UTC
Email me your SSH pubkey, PGP signed, and I'll set you up.
Comment 7 Ville Skyttä 2004-09-16 16:59:01 UTC
Ok, I took a look at the RHEL3 situation (thanks, Terje!), and it does not look
too promising wrt. the RPMs.

First, RHEL3 has OpenSP 1.3.4.  It /could/ be possible to upgrade to a later one
using the openjade RPM from Fedora Core X, but I believe that would not be a
good idea wrt. the RHEL support contracts.

Further, if/when we soon start to require Perl >= 5.8.2, that would have to be
upgraded too (RHEL3 has 5.8.0).  And additionally, the required perl-* rpms from
fedora.us would probably have to be rebuilt on EL due to differing versioned
perl @INC directories.

Summary: I think RHEL users are better off building everything from source, and
we should leave the validator installation docs wrt. this exactly as they are
now. -->  Re-setting fixed.