Last Friday, I tried to install the eprints software on one of my computers.
My first attempt was to use the live cd provided by the official website, it is suggested by the developper as the fastest way to get started. I created a virtual machine (used virtualbox) and booted from the live cd. Accoding to the guide, there supposed to have a shortcut on the desktop to initiate the installation, but there is not, nor anywhere else. A web page was opened after boot, greeting that I am successfully installed eprints. But I am sure nothing was installed on to the harddrive yet. After a while of explorering the live system, and with limited documentation, I decide to install eprints software inside a running linux system instead.
I have a virtual machine with kubuntu 8.04 running, downloaded the eprints3.31 deb package file from the eprints site and executed it. It started to download dependency packages from the web, totally 68. Unfortunately, it claimed not be able to download one of the package. I re-tried many times with no luck. I decided to install using the apt-get.
Following the guide, I added the eprints source and started to download the packages. This time, it successfully finished installing with no error. But just as I was following the next bit of guide to get started with the eprints, the guide became ambiguous and inaccurate again - the eprint user was not found.
I need to spend more time on this another time.
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