Installation
The following preconditions must be met before you can install Menu Editor 3.6.4-1:
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A suitable version of the CUE Content Store and CUE assembly tool have been installed as described in the Escenic Content Engine Installation Guide and are in working order.
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You have the credentials needed to access CCI Europe's SW repositories.
In a multi-host environment:
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The Menu Editor plug-in must be installed on all hosts.
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The CUE event mechanism must be working correctly.
Choosing an installation method
Until recently, all
CUE-supplied
components had to be installed by manually downloading and unpacking
archive files. This is no longer the case. The
Content Store
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
CUE
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 Store
installation, you should use the same installation method as you used for
the
Content Store
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 them 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 the Menu Editor plug-in, you should use the same method as you used to install the CUE Content Store.
Note that if you are planning to install the
CUE Content Store
using the new package-based method, you can install the
Menu Editor
plug-in simultaneously by simply including the
Menu Editor
plug-in package name (escenic-menu-editor
) in the
apt-get
installation command. You only need to follow
this procedure if you have already installed the
Content Store
and now need to install the
Menu Editor
plug-in.
If you use CUE as your CUE editor, then in addition to installing the CUE Menu Editor plug-in, you must also activate CUE's Menu Editor plugin. For details, see CUE Plug-in Activation.