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1. Install a custom repo file to use Jpackage repository v5.0:

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   wget -P/etc/yum.repos.d http://librhn.unm.edu/pub/jpackage50-ant17-maven2-mod.repo

   The contents of the config is listed at the end of this document: #Config Files
2. Install the GPG key from JPackage:

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   rpm --import http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc

3. Update the system to use the new jpackage-utils 5.0 package:

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   yum update -y

   Note
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   Unfortunately this has a bad side effect of removing /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers, which was maintained in the RHEL 5 jpackage-utils 1.7, but not in the new one provided by Jpackage.

   ((Also

   This is also a known RHEL5 + JPackage bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497213

   ))
4. Now we need to install a workaround, to address the missing /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers dependency((I used directions I found for CentOS 5: http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/jpackage-jpackage-utils-compatibility-for-centos-5.x))((This link is also useful, and somewhat related to getting the repo config file we used to work: http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/jpackage-rpm-repository-for-centos-rhel-5.x)).

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   rpm -ivh http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/images/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm

   What a mess... but it's working.

Install Tomcat5, Ant 1.7 and Maven 2 with jpackage filters

(We continue installing prerequisite software for Dspace 1.6 on RHEL5...)

• Requirement Jakarta Tomcat 4.x or later - RHEL5 currently provides Tomcat 5.5.23.
  1. Install Tomcat5 and postgres-jdbc connector:

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     yum install tomcat5 tomcat5-webapps postgresql-jdbc geronimo-javamail-1.4-api -x classpathx-mail -y

     This will be a large list of dependencies to be installed, BUT the majority of the packages will be installed from official RHEL 5 channels. This is a good thing. Also removed/excluded the default java mail package classpathx-mail (gnu) as it wasn't working with Dspace, replaced with geronimo java mail. You may get an error here when tomcat5-common-lib is installed, but I don't think it is a game-stopper.
  2. Since we changed the java mailer, we need to update alternatives to use the Geronimo version, which doesn't configure itself upon install:

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     alternatives --install /usr/share/java/javamail.jar javamail /usr/share/java/geronimo-javamail-1.4-api-1.1.jar 666

     This step is necessary, otherwise Tomcat reports errors every time it starts up.
• Requirement Apache Ant 1.7 or later (Java build tool) – RHEL5 currently provides ant-1.6.5. – Ant 1.7 was installed as a dependency for Tomcat5 via the jpackage repo, per the work we did in the jpackage repo config file.(previous step)Let's install a missed Ant related package which is required for a Dspace 1.6 build:

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  yum install ant-apache-regexp -y

• Requirement Apache Maven 2.0.8 or later (Java build tool) – The Maven2 install turns out to be the most complicated package to install on this system because the HUGE number of dependent packages. From the work done when creating the custom jpackage repo file(previous steps), we can install:

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  yum install maven2 -y

Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) package install

( This package was created in a previous build, and was declared required for out install, so all we need to do is install it. I'm assuming it works. This is apparently what rescales TIFF images into jpg thumbnails. )

1. Install the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) rpm:

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   rpm -ivh http://librhn.unm.edu/pub/jai-1.1.2.01-1jpp.i586.rpm