| <sect1 id="repo-ws-install"> |
| |
| <title>Installing Your Workstation</title> |
| |
| <para> |
| In order to have a working copy of &TCAR; in your workstation, |
| the first step you need to follow is pick up a computer and |
| install an operating system in it. This computer will be named |
| the workstation from now on. |
| </para> |
| |
| <para> |
| At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in |
| your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on |
| &TCD; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At |
| time of this writing &TCD; release 5.5 was used as platform to |
| support all development work lines inside &TCAR; working copy. |
| So, in order to get a reproducable environment, it is |
| convenient that you, too, use the same version of the |
| operating system that we did. |
| </para> |
| |
| <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-burning"> |
| <title>Installation Media</title> |
| <para> |
| To install &TCD; you need to have access to the installation |
| media somehow (e.g., CDs, DVDs, Pendrives, etc.). If you |
| don't have the installation media of &TCD;, you need to |
| download the ISO files related to the installation media you |
| plan to use (e.g., CD or DVD) and then create the installation |
| media by yourself. &TCD; ISO files can be downloaded from |
| &TCM;. |
| </para> |
| <para> |
| Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TCD;, you can burn it |
| using the <application>K3B</application> application and, this |
| way, you are creating the installation media you are in need |
| of. Of course, in order to download the ISO files and create |
| the installation media, you need to have a workstation already |
| functionality where you can realized such tasks. If this is |
| the first time for you and see yourself into much troubles |
| here, talk to the guys in your nearest LUG, or simply send a |
| mail to &TCML; where you'll surely have the answer you need. |
| </para> |
| |
| <para> |
| Once you have the installation media on your hands, the |
| installation process of &TCD; is rather straightforward. To |
| begin, you put the installation media in your media reader, |
| boot the computer from it, and follow the installer |
| intructions till it completes all the steps. That simple. |
| </para> |
| </sect2> |
| |
| |
| <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-partition"> |
| <title>Partition Information</title> |
| <para> |
| The partition information you set in your workstation is very |
| specific to your personal needs and the technical |
| characteristics of your machine. Generally, the default |
| partitioning schema suggested by &TCD; installer is fine for |
| the workstation we are preparing as platform for the working |
| copy of &TCAR;. The amount of space required to store a clean |
| working copy of &TCAR; is about 1GB. Later, when you start |
| rendering content, more space will be required. There is no |
| specific space we can suggest since the final amount of space |
| required depends on the amount of content you produce after |
| downloading a clean working copy; just be sure to leave enough |
| space to work (e.g., 10GB seems to be a good number) whatever |
| your partition information be. |
| </para> |
| |
| </sect2> |
| |
| <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-packages"> |
| |
| <title>Packages Selection</title> |
| |
| <para> |
| The packages selection lets you to specify which software does |
| your workstation will have once it be installed. In this step, |
| you need to select the following groups of packages: |
| </para> |
| |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Desktop Environments</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| GNOME Desktop Environment |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </listitem> |
| |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Applications</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Authoring and Publishing |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Editors |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Graphical Internet |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Graphics |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Office/Productivity |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Text-based Internet |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </listitem> |
| |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Development</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Development Libraries |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| Development Tools |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| GNOME Software Development |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| KDE Software Development |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| |
| <para> |
| Packages selected in this step provide a base selection of all |
| the packages needed in order to have a functional working |
| copy of &TCAR;. The only exception is the |
| <package>inkscape</package> package and some of its |
| dependencies which don't come with &TCD; and need to be |
| installed from third party repositories like EPEL and |
| RPMForge, as described in the <ulink |
| url="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">Repositories</ulink> |
| wiki page. |
| </para> |
| |
| </sect2> |
| |
| </sect1> |