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Installation Guides
Installing Sahana takes a few steps, because it runs off of a web server. You will end up running Sahana through a web browser, rather than directly from the Start menu (if you run MS Windows).
Retrieving the software (Phase 1)
General Users
Sahana is generally downloaded from SourceForge. If you run MS Windows, look for sahana-version_number.zip
.
Power Users
For developers and power users, Sahana can easily be retrieved via CVS or Launchpad Bazaar.
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@sahana.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sahana co -P sahana-phase2
bzr launchpad-login bzr branch lp:sahana
Via Repositories
Fedora
yum install sahana
Debian
Help required, please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497414
Ubuntu
Help required, please see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/271260
Other
No other repositories are included at this stage. Help welcome.
Getting Sahana Working (Phase 2)
This phase will install the software. Once everything appears to be working correctly, Sahana will do a self-check. You will be asked to enter the details of your database users and passwords. Those instructions are detailed in phase 2, below.
Windows
- Standard Installation, select this if you are running a standard desktop or laptop
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GNU/Linux, BSDs and other Unixes
Mac OS X
One Laptop Per Child
Configuring Sahaha (Phase 3)
- Web setup (See also 'Simple Configuration Help')
- Simple Configuration Help (See also 'Web setup')
Next Steps (Phase 4)
Finalize your install after starting Sahana for the first time.
You will now have a fully functioning, but empty, instance of Sahana running on your machine. This last phase will show you how to make the most of your experience.
Known Issues
Invalid Argument Failure in IE8 with OpenLayers:
In the process of testing OpenLayers on IE8 - we discovered a known issue / error
Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0) Timestamp: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:07:14 UTC Message: Invalid argument. Line: 793 Char: 110 Code: 0 URI: http://192.168.1.5/sahanatides/www/res/OpenLayers/OpenLayers.js
This occurs in Sahana rendering the situation map unusable with OpenLayers on an IE8 client. OpenLayers has an open ticket on this item and has milestoned a solution for a 2.9 release.