Install

This is a guide about how to install LibrePlan project in your system. If you want to upgrade your LibrePlan version see UPDATE file. If you want to know how to compile it manually see HACKING file.

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LibrePlan automatic installation

Ubuntu PPAs

There are Ubuntu PPAs for different versions (Lucid, Maverick and Natty), you can find more info in the following URL: https://launchpad.net/~libreplan/+archive/ppa

Instructions:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreplan/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libreplan

Tip

If you do not have add-apt-repository command, you will need to install python-software-properties package before running the previous commands. You can do it with the following line:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Warning

If you have memory problems review the section Fix memory errors.

Debian packages

There are Debian packages for Squeeze (i386 and amd64), you can download them from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libreplan/files/LibrePlan/

Instructions:

  • Download the package:

    $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libreplan/LibrePlan/libreplan_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb

  • Install package:

    # dpkg -i libreplan_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb

  • Install dependencies:

    # apt-get install -f

Warning

If you have problems with printing support review the section Fix printing in Debian Squeeze.

Warning

If you have memory problems review the section Fix memory errors.

Fedora, CentOS and openSUSE OBS (openSUSE Build Service)

Instructions depending on the distribution:

  • Fedora 17:

    # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/Fedora_17/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# yum install libreplan

    Follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/libreplan-1.3.0/README.Fedora afterwards.

  • Fedora 16:

    # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/Fedora_16/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# yum install libreplan

    Follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/libreplan-1.3.0/README.Fedora afterwards.

  • CentOS 6:

    # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/CentOS_CentOS-6/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# yum install libreplan

  • openSUSE Factory:

    # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/openSUSE_Factory/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# zypper ref
# zypper install libreplan

  • openSUSE 12.1:

    # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/openSUSE_12.1/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# zypper ref
# zypper install libreplan

  • openSUSE 11.4:

    # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
# wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/openSUSE_11.4/home:jsuarezr:LibrePlan.repo
# zypper ref
# zypper install libreplan

Warning

If you have memory problems review the section Fix memory errors.

RPM Packages

There are several LibrePlan RPM packages available in the following URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsuarezr:/LibrePlan/

Follow the instructions in the corresponding README file to finish the installation.

Warning

If you have memory problems review the section Fix memory errors.

LibrePlan manual installation

Debian/Ubuntu

  • Install requirements:

    # apt-get install openjdk-6-jre postgresql postgresql-client tomcat6 libpg-java cutycapt xvfb

  • Connect to database:

    # su postgres -c psql

  • Use SQL sentences to create database:

    CREATE DATABASE libreplan;
CREATE USER libreplan WITH PASSWORD 'libreplan';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE libreplan TO libreplan;

  • Download database installation script:

    $ wget -O install.sql http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libreplan/LibrePlan/install_1.3.0.sql

  • Create database structure:

    $ psql -h localhost -U libreplan -W libreplan < install.sql

    Warning

    It is very important to execute the previous command specifiying libreplan user (as you can see in the -U option). Otherwise your LibrePlan installation is not going to start properly and you could find in your log files something like that:

    JDBCExceptionReporter  - ERROR: permission denied for relation entity_sequence

  • Download .war file from SourceForge.net:

    $ wget -O libreplan.war http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libreplan/LibrePlan/libreplan_1.3.0.war

  • Create a new file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/libreplan.xml (file name has to match with .war name) with database configuration for Tomcat 6:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="">
    <Resource name="jdbc/libreplan-ds" auth="Container"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource"
        maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
        username="libreplan" password="libreplan"
        driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
        url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/libreplan" />
</Context>

  • Add a new Tomcat 6 policy file /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/51libreplan.policy with the following content:

    grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/libreplan/-" {
   permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/libreplan.war" {
   permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

  • Add next lines to Tomcat 6 policy file /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/03catalina.policy file:

    grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" {
  ...
  // begin:libreplan
  permission java.io.FilePermission "${catalina.base}${file.separator}webapps${file.separator}libreplan${file.separator}WEB-INF${file.separator}classes${file.separator}logging.properties", "read";
  // end:libreplan
  ...
};

  • Add link to Java JDBC driver for PostgreSQL in Tomcat6 libraries directory:

    # ln -s /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc3.jar /usr/share/tomcat6/lib/

  • Copy war to Tomcat 6 web applications directory:

    # cp libreplan.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/

  • Restart Tomcat 6:

    # /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

  • Go to http://localhost:8080/libreplan/

Warning

If you have problems with printing support review the last section Fix printing in Debian Squeeze.

openSUSE

  • Install requirements:

    # zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk postgresql-server postgresql tomcat6 xorg-x11-server

  • JDBC Driver manual installation:

    # cd /usr/share/java/
# wget http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc3.jar
# mv postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc3.jar postgresql-jdbc3.jar

  • Follow instructions at HACKING file to compile and install CutyCapt

  • Start database service:

    # /etc/init.d/postgresql start

  • Connect to database:

    # su postgres -c psql

  • SQL sentences to create database:

    CREATE DATABASE libreplan;
CREATE USER libreplan WITH PASSWORD 'libreplan';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE libreplan TO libreplan;

  • Set postgres user password:

    ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres';

  • Edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf and replace ident by md5

  • Restart database service:

    # /etc/init.d/postgresql restart

  • Download database installation script:

    $ wget -O install.sql http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libreplan/LibrePlan/install_1.3.0.sql

  • Create database structure:

    $ psql -h localhost -U libreplan -W libreplan < install.sql

    Warning

    It is very important to execute the previous command specifiying libreplan user (as you can see in the -U option). Otherwise your LibrePlan installation is not going to start properly and you could find in your log files something like that:

    JDBCExceptionReporter  - ERROR: permission denied for relation entity_sequence

  • Download .war file from SourceForge.net:

    $ wget -O libreplan.war http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libreplan/LibrePlan/libreplan_1.3.0.war

  • Create a new file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/libreplan.xml (file name has to match with .war name) with database configuration for Tomcat 6:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="">
    <Resource name="jdbc/libreplan-ds" auth="Container"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource"
        maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
        username="libreplan" password="libreplan"
        driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
        url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/libreplan" />
</Context>

  • Add link to Java JDBC driver for PostgreSQL in Tomcat6 libraries directory:

    # ln -s /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc3.jar /usr/share/tomcat6/lib/

  • Copy war to Tomcat 6 web applications directory:

    # cp libreplan.war /srv/tomcat6/webapps/

  • Restart Tomcat 6:

    # /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

  • Go to http://localhost:8080/libreplan/

Logs

Since LibrePlan 1.1.1 log system is configured automatically creating a new folder under /var/log/tomcat6/ with .war name. For example: /var/log/tomcat6/libreplan/.

Inside this new directory there will be two files (libreplan.log and libreplan-error.log) that will be rotated every day.

Configure log directory

Anyway if you want to set manually LibrePlan log path you will have to configure JAVA_OPTS variable in your server. This variable is configured in different files depending on the distribution:

  • Debian or Ubuntu: /etc/default/tomcat6
  • Fedora or openSUSE: /etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf

Where you will need to add the next line:

# Configure LibrePlan log directory
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dlibreplan-log-directory=/my/path/to/libreplan/log/"

Warning

You have to be sure that the user running Tomcat (usually tomcat6) has permissions to write in the specified directory.

Fix printing in Debian Squeeze

Since LibrePlan 1.2 printing support is not working properly in Debian Squeeze. To fix this issue, basically, you have to get a newer version of CutyCapt and WebKit dependencies from Debian testing.

Instructions:

Fix memory errors

With the default parameters of Tomcat in the different distributions you could have problems with Java memory.

After a while using LibrePlan you could see that some windows do not work and the log shows a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception.

This exception could be caused because of two different issues:

In order to avoid this problem you need to configure properly JAVA_OPTS variable in your server. This is configured in different files depending on the distribution:

The next lines show a possible configuration to fix the memory errors (the exact values depends on the server features):

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -server -Djava.awt.headless=true"

Where the different parameters have the following meaning:

Note

Take into account that size of PermGen is additional to heap size.