Installation
The following preconditions must be met before you can install CUE Live 2.1.0-7:
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Escenic Content Engine version 6.0.2-3 and Escenic assembly tool have been installed as described in the Escenic Content Engine Installation Guide and are in working order.
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The CUE editor has been installed and as described in the CUE User Guide and configured to work with the Content Engine installation.
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You have the credentials needed to access Escenic's SW repositories.
Choosing an installation method
Until recently, all
Escenic-supplied
components had to be installed by manually downloading and unpacking
archive files. This is no longer the case. The
Content Engine
itself, the assembly tool, the ece scripts and all plug-ins are now
available as deb
packages (for installing on
Ubuntu/Debian systems) and as rpm
packages (for
installation on RedHat/CentOS systems). This is now the recommended method
of installing
Escenic
systems, although it is still possible to use the old method based on
manually downloading and unpacking archives. Note, however, that when you
are installing a plug-in on an existing
Content Engine
installation, you should use the same installation method as you used for
the
Content Engine
itself.
Using the new package installation method offers many advantages over the old manual installation procedure:
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It is faster and quicker
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It is significantly less error-prone
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It supports a fully automated upgrade process in which not only the installed packages themselves are upgraded, but also deployed EAR files. An upgrade script automatically checks the EAR files for copies of JAR files that have been updated, and replaces then with the new versions.
The old installation method will continue to be documented for the moment.
Components installed using the new method are installed in
/usr/share/escenic
, whereas the old method recommends
installation in /opt/escenic
, and some other path
components are slightly different. To cope with these differences, the
following placeholders are used in some paths:
Placeholder | NEW METHOD path | OLD METHOD path |
---|---|---|
engine-installation |
|
|
assemblytool_installation |
|
|
When installing CUE Live, you should use the same method as you used to install Escenic Content Engine 6.0.2-3.
Note that if you are planning to install
Escenic Content Engine
6.0.2-3
using the new package-based method, you can install
CUE Live
simultaneously by simply including the
CUE Live
package name (escenic-live
) in the
apt-get
installation command. You only need to follow
the procedure described in this section if you have already installed
the
Content Engine
and now need to install the
CUE Live
plug-in.
In a multiple-server environment:
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CUE Live must be installed on all servers.
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The Escenic event mechanism must be working correctly.
Whichever method you use to install the CUE Live Escenic plug-in, you also need to install a CUE Live plug-in into the CUE editor itself, and this is always a package-based installation. For details, see CUE Plug-in Installation.