Open edX

Deployment

• https://github.com/gbraad/deploy-openedx
• https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OpenOPS/Open+edX+Installation+Options

In a few steps

1. Update and upgrade Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2. Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential software-properties-common python-software-properties curl git-core libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-pip python-apt python-dev  libxmlsec1-dev swig
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

3. Clone the configuration repository

$ cd /var/tmp
$ git clone -b release https://github.com/edx/configuration

4. Allow password-based SSH authentication

configuration/playbooks/roles/common/defaults/main.yml

COMMON_SSH_PASSWORD_AUTH="yes"

5. Install requirements

$ cd /var/tmp/configuration
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Run the edx_sandbox.yml playbook in the configuration/playbooks directory

$ cd /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks && sudo ansible-playbook -c local ./edx_sandbox.yml -i "localhost,"

7. Open edX

http://localhost

Troubleshooting

no alternatives for libblas.so.3gf

TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | Use libblas for 3gf] *************************** 
failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["update-alternatives", "--set", "libblas.so.3gf", "/usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3gf"], "delta": "0:00:00.002302", "end": "2016-09-18 09:26:37.399477", "rc": 2, "start": "2016-09-18 09:26:37.397175", "warnings": []}
stderr: update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for libblas.so.3gf

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

cd /edx/app/edx_ansible/edx_ansible/

diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml
index 1793cb5..08070b3 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 # MITx 6.341x course.
 # TODO: Switch to using alternatives module in 1.6
 - name: code sandbox | Use libblas for 3gf
-  command: update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3gf /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3gf
+  command: update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3 /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3

 # TODO: Switch to using alternatives module in 1.6
 - name: code sandbox | Use liblapac for 3gf
-  command: update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3gf /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3gf
+  command: update-alternatives --set liblapack.so.3 /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3

 - name: code sandbox | Create edxapp sandbox user
   user: name={{ edxapp_sandbox_user }} shell=/bin/false home={{ edxapp_sandbox_venv_dir }}

$ vi /edx/app/edx_ansible/edx_ansible/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml
# change .3gf to .3
$ ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local vagrant-fullstack.yml -e@$ANSIBLE_ROOT/server-vars.yml -e@$ANSIBLE_ROOT/extra-vars.yml --skip-tags install:code