Development environment

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Please note: Development environment instructions were for Archivematica 1.4 and earlier - these notes are no longer supported. Instead please see: Getting started

This page explains how you can configure and use a standard Linux system as an Archivematica development environment. The Archivematica development environment is available for developers that want the ability to customize or enhance their own Archivematica installation and/or contribute code back to the Archivematica project.

Setup

• Install ubuntu 12.04
• create a non-root user (with sudo privileges)
• log in as your new non-root user
• install archivematica storage service

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:archivematica/release
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:archivematica/externals
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install archivematica-storage-service
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/storage /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/storage
sudo ln -s /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/storage.ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/storage.ini
sudo service uwsgi restart
sudo service nginx restart

• install git

sudo apt-get install git

• Use git to checkout Archivematica code

git clone https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica.git

• Run the install and helper scripts.

  • cd archivematica

  • ./dev-installer

  • Answer Y to all prompts.
  • Restart the machine. (this is to enable the upstart services).

  • cd archivematica

  • ./dev-helper

  • Answer Y to all prompts.
  • Complete AtoM setup
    • The database should already be created.
    • http://localhost/atom
    • https://www.qubit-toolkit.org/wiki/Installation#Open_Qubit.2C_ICA-AtoM.2C_or_DCB_in_your_web_browser
  • Open the [dashboard http://localhost]

Configuring and Using Archivematica

These manuals contain information about the use and configuration of Archivematica:
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Administrator_manual
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/User_Manual

Update

To pull down the latest code commits from the repository, and reset your dev install, navigate to the directory where Archivematica has been cloned:

• Change Directory to the archivematica git directory.

cd ~/archivematica/

• Check to see if you have any local changes that need to be stashed

git diff

• If there are local changes please stash or commit them. (Or you won't be able to update).

git stash

Update...

• ./dev-helper

• "Would you like to git pull?" (y/N) y

• "Would you like to update/install package requirements?" (y/N) 

• "Would you like to recreate the databases?" (y/N) y

  • Note: this command will remove any processing sips/transfers.

• "Would you like to erase the ElasticSearch indexes?" (y/N) 

• "Would you like to clear transfer backlog and AIP storage?" (y/N) 

  • Note: this command will delete all stored AIPs and stored backlogged transfers.

• "Would you like to restart archivematica services?" (y/N) y

• "Would you like to update sample data in /home/user/archivematica-sampledata?" (y/N) 

• "Would you like to export sample data from /home/user/archivematica-sampledata?" (y/N) 

• "Would you like to update AtoM and restart its atom-worker service?" (y/N) y

If you stashed changes, re-apply them with

git stash pop

Troubleshooting

• If it stalls during update "Would you like to update/install package requirements?" (y/N)
  • Stop the script with CTRL + C
  • Try installing the item it failed on on the command line. Ie.

  • sudo apt-get install postfix

  • Restart the dev-helper "Would you like to update/install package requirements?"

• If you get this error error starting service:

  • sudo start archivematica-mcp-server

  • start: Unknown job: archivematica-mcp-server

  • Reload the configuration Original answer and try again

  • sudo initctl reload-configuration

  • Alternatively, reboot the machine.

• If a SIP processing fails, it will move it to the 'failed' directory which is located:

  • /var/archivematica/sharedDirectory/watchedDirectories/failed

• if ArchivematicaServer freezes

  • sudo restart archivematica-mcp-server

  • sudo restart archivematica-mcp-client

• if ArchivematicaClient freezes (in terminal kill command)

  • sudo restart archivematica-mcp-client

• Updates to the Dashboard may require an Apache webserver restart:

  • sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• If you find a problem running the Dashboard and you want to get a detailed error log to report us, please switch it to debug mode following these instructions.

• MCP is currently logging to the /tmp/directory
  • /tmp/archivematicaMCPClient-HOST.log
  • /tmp/archivematicaMCPServer-HOST-DATE.log
  • /tmp/archivematicaMCPServerPID