Install Archivematica Ubuntu

This Guide assumes you want to install the core Archivematica Components on a existing Ubuntu 10.04 machine.

Add Our Repository

CREATE PUBLIC ARCHIVEMATICA REPOSITORY

Installing Packages

Core Install

Install the following packages archivematica-mcp-server, archivematica-mcp-client, archivematica-mcp-rpccli,

sudo aptitude install archivematica-mcp-server archivematica-mcp-client archivematica-mcp-rpccli

Shotgun Approach

There is a meta package available called archivematica-shotgun, aka the shotgun approach. This package is used to build our demo and test environments and includes a wide range of tools and libraries we find useful for digital archiving. It includes archivematica-mcp-server, archivematica-mcp-client, transcoder, archivematica-mcp-rpccli, upload-qubit, droid, fits, jhove, xena, easy-extract, bagit, nfs-kernel-server, nfs-common, fusesmb, smbfs, samba-common, hfsplus, hfsprogs, vlc, guymager, autopsy, gddrescue. This package set assumes you are using a desktop environment, if installing on a server please use the core packages above.

sudo aptitude install archivematica-shotgun

Post Install

Add your user to the archivematica group

sudo gpasswd -a myUserName archivematica

Give archivematica sudoers rights

sudo echo "archivematica ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mv,/bin/chown,/bin/chmod,/usr/bin/unoconv,/usr/bin/gs" >> /etc/sudoers 

ICA-Atom

In order for the upload-dip service of archivematica to function one must use ica-atom 1.0.9

check out revision 6907

 svn checkout -r6907 http://qubit-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/ica-atom/  ica-atom-svn

export to /var/www

sudo svn export ica-atom-svn /var/www/ica-atom