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I was waiting for my backups to be done hence this article, as I was using
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_git-annex_ to manage my files and I decided I needed to have
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git-annex on a SL5 based machine. SL5 is just an opensource
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clone/recompile of RHEL5.
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I haven't tried to install the newer versions of Haskell Platform and
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GHC in a while on SL5 to install git-annex. But the last time I checked
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when GHC7 was out, it was a pain to install GHC on SL5.
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However I have discovered that someone has gone through the trouble of
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packaging up GHC and Haskell Platform for RHEL based distros.
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* <http://justhub.org/download> - Packaged GHC and Haskell Platform
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RPM's for RHEL based systems.
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I'm primarily interested in installing _git-annex_ on SL5 based
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systems. The installation process goes as such...
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First install GHC and Haskell Platform (you need root for these
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following steps)
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$ wget http://sherkin.justhub.org/el5/RPMS/x86_64/justhub-release-2.0-4.0.el5.x86_64.rpm
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$ rpm -ivh justhub-release-2.0-4.0.el5.x86_64.rpm
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$ yum install haskell
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The RPM's don't place the files in /usr/bin, so you must add the
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following to your .bashrc (from here on you don't need root if you
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don't want things to be system wide)
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$ export PATH=/usr/hs/bin:$PATH
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Once the packages are installed and are in your execution path, using
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cabal to configure and build git-annex just makes life easier, it
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should install all the needed dependancies.
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$ cabal update
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$ git clone git://git.kitenet.net/git-annex
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$ cd git-annex
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$ make git-annex.1
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$ cabal configure
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$ cabal build
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$ cabal install
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Or if you want to install it globallly for everyone (otherwise it will
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get installed into $HOME/.cabal/bin)
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$ cabal install --global
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The above will take a while to compile and install the needed
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dependancies. I would suggest any user who does should run the tests
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that comes with git-annex to make sure everything is functioning as
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expected.
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I haven't had a chance or need to install git-annex on a SL6 based
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system yet, but I would assume something similar to the above steps
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would be required to do so.
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The above is almost a cut and paste of <http://jcftang.github.com/2012/06/15/installing-git-annex-on-sl5/>, the above could probably be refined, it was what worked for me on SL5. Please feel free to re-edit and chop out or add useless bits of text in the above!
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Note: from the minor testing, it appears the compiled binaries from SL5 will work on SL6.
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