Setting up edx-platform on Ubutnu

These are the instructions to set edx-platform from scratch on Ubuntu. Max time installation should be around 30 minutes. This was done on a virtual box running Ubuntu 12.

Instructions:

Launch an Ubuntu 12.04 server and login to it as a user that has full sudo privileges

Make sure you have pip and git installed:
$ sudo apt-get install -y python-pip git-core

Make sure you have build-essential and python-dev installed. This is sos!:
$ apt-get install -y build-essential python-dev

Install essentials for curl and ssh
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext \
libz-dev libssl-dev

Install graph and geolocation libs
$ sudo apt-get install graphviz graphviz-dev libgeos-dev

Install LAPACK, BLAS and ATLAS libs
$ sudo apt-get install libblas-dev libatlas-dev liblapack-dev

Install libxml libs
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

Install fortran compiler
$ sudo apt-get install gfortran

Install mysql server client and dev kit
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

Install nodejs javascript runtimes, npm and coffee-script
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
$ sudo npm install -g coffee-script

Install python setup tools if not installed
$ sudo pip install setuptools

Install virtual env to run python in “box”
$ sudo pip install virtualenv

Install mongodb for ubuntu
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

Now login as user and install rvm as user:

$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Enter this to your .profile:
$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

logout and relogin as user

Install and set ruby 1.9.3-p374 as default with these commands:
$ rvm list known
$ rvm install 1.9.3-p374
$ rvm use 1.9.3-p374 –default

You should have ruby 1.9.3-p374 installed. Check it out with:
$ ruby -v

Now go to your home:

create a folder called “dev” and inside that folder
create a “log” folder, a “data” folder, a “db” folder and an “edx” folder

Download edx-plaform (https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/archive/master.zip)
and extract it inside the “edx” folder

CD into edx folder and create a virtual python variable:

$ virtualenv EDXENV

This will create a folder called EDXENV.

Activate the virtual environment by running:

$ source EDXENV/bin/activate

Now while you are inside the edx folder install:

$ pip install -r requirements/edx/pre.txt
$ pip install -r requirements/edx/base.txt
$ pip install -r requirements/edx/post.txt
$ bundle install

start mongodb database:
$ service mongodb start

Configure database with:

$ ./manage.py lms syncdb –migrate
$ ./manage.py cms syncdb –migrate

Finally run programs:

Learning management system (LMS):

$ rake lms[cms.dev,0.0.0.0:8000]

Studio (CMS):

$ rake cms[dev,0.0.0.0:8001]