Library Monk

Installing MediaWiki for IT 566 was pretty much the same as for WordPress. Download the tar file into your web root, create a MySQL database and user then go to you MediaWiki directory via a web brower and follow the instructions.

The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/mediawiki/. A screenshot is below.

One of the IT 566 challenges was do install WordPress. WordPress has a very simple installation procedure.

I created a MySQL user and database using phpMyadmin. After extracting the downloaded WordPress tar file to my web root and edited wp-config and I was ready to go.

The site is at http://librarymonk.zapto.org/wordpress/. A screenshot is below.

One of the challenges for IT 566 is to get Chrome OS. The pilot program for the CR-48 notebook closed sometime in March. Hardware running Chrome OS won’t be commercially available until June or July. So running Chrome OS on native hardware isn’t an option.

Chromium OS is the open source variant of Chrome OS. Compiling Chromium OS requires a 64 bit system, which I don’t have. So compiling isn’t an option either.

You can get the OS already compiled however. I got my install files from Hexxeh. Build images are available for USB, VirtualBox, and VMWare.

I installed the USB version on a 8 GB USB flash drive using these directions. I used the nightly builds I linked above rather than the older Flow build referred to in these directions.

A screenshot of Chromium booted and running off the USB drive is below.

I also installed Chromium on my Ubuntu machine using VirtualBox. VirtualBox can be installed via many methods, including Ubuntu Software Center. After installing I used these instructions to get the Chromium OS virtual machine running. A screenshot is below.

Drush is (at least from my experience) not that well documented. The commands seem to change slightly with every version

I did figure out how to download themes with drush.

sudo drush dl sky

downloaded the sky theme

But I couldn’t figure out how to switch to that theme using drush so I just switched to the new theme via Appearance in the Drupal admin. In any case here’s Drupal with the Sky theme:

http://librarymonk.zapto.org/drupal

Next in IT 566 land was installing Drupal and Drush. I installed Drupal with a few lines in the terminal:

cd /var/www
sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf drupal-7.0.tar.gz
sudo mv drupal-7.0/ drupal

Then I made a Drupal database and user with phpmyadmin
and ran the drupal installer by going to localhost/drupal

The result is below.

Drush is a command line shell for quickly configuring Drupal. The recommended version of Drush for Drupal 7 is Drush 4.4

To install Drush it’s back to the terminal

cd /usr/local/share/
sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz
sudo rm drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/drush
sudo drush

You’ll know if Drush is installed if you see a screen like this after running sudo drush.

After a bit of a break, next up for IT 566 was installing Samba. I installed and configured Samba between Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP using these directions.

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/11/enable-file-sharing-windows-xp-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/

Here’s a screenshot from the Ubuntu side of things.

Samba on the Windows side.

I also mapped the share to a drive letter (U) on the Windows side by using “Tools” “Map Network Drive” in Windows Explorer.