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HOW TO INSTALL SCIELO OPAC ON ROCKY LINUX

Prerequisites

  • An Rocky Linux system.
  • A user with root or sudo privileges. This user will be used for installing new packages and make changes system-wide.
  • Python 3.x (earlier version) and git command

Getting the last version

  • Dowloading the newest release, uncompress and move to the directory /usr/local/opac
wget https://github.com/scieloorg/opac/archive/refs/tags/v3.4.51.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v3.4.51.tar.gz 
mv opac-3.4.51 /usr/local/opac
  • Create python environment and install using pip
# Installing git command
dnf install git

cd /usr/local/opac
# Creating the environment
python3 -m venv .venv

# Activating the environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# Installing
pip install -U pip & pip install -r requirements.txt