Installation to Linux

This chapter describes how to install Desktop On-Call to Linux. 2 types of packages are prepared. One is rpm format package, the other is tar.gz type format package.
Install by following steps;

  1. Package installation
  2. Configuration and parameters setting
Note Commands described here should be type in a terminal of Linux. Audience should have knowledge about Linux Operating System and the basic operation.

Proceed installation job from the package installation.

Package installation

  1. You need to login your Linux as root user.
  2. Mount your CD-ROM.

    Type in following command in order to mount your CD-ROM.
    #mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
    or,
    #mount /mnt/cdrom

  3. Execute the install command.

    Then the Desktop On-Call Linux version has installed on /usr/local/edtoc.

Configuration and parameters setting

You need to customize configuration files and it's parameters setting, such as the PATH environment parameters.

Setting of PATH

Login using your userid of the Linux host pc and perform following;
Start and End commands are placed on /usr/local/edtoc/bin directory. Therefore you need to include this directory as PATH.

  1. Verify your PATH using following command;

    $echo $PATH
    You got your current PATH.

  2. The method of the PATH setting depends on your using login shell. You need to identify your shell(bash or csh). Almost Al Linux default shell is bash. You can verify your shell using "echo $shell" command.

Desktop On-Call Configuration file settings

Desktop On-Call Linux version uses text based the configuration files instead of properties panels.
Desktop On-Call refer the configuration files at the starting time.
The original Desktop On-Call configuration files(setenv DTOC_PATH /usr/local/edtoc) are stored under following directories;
/usr/local/edtoc/etc

Copy these files to $HOME/.dtoc directory using following command;

Dtocuser
This command(shell) is doing followings;
mkdir -p $HOME/.dtoc
cp -p $DTOC_PATH/etc/* $HOME/.dtoc

Set your password

Desktop On-Call allows two userids. One is your Linux userid, and the other is "guest".
The password is stored in .upasswd(for Linux userid) and .gpasswd("guest" id) under HOME/.dtoc as cryptographic format.

You have done the installation task.
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