Install TACTIC on CentOS 7
Updated December 2019
These instructions are for a TACTIC server that will use PostgreSQL and Apache on a Cent OS server. Refer to the General TACTIC Installation for other OSes. For other database types, refer to guides in Install TACTIC Application.
Install PostgreSQL
CentOS 7 comes with PostgreSQL 9.2 by default. TACTIC needs PostgreSQL 9.4 and higher.
Here are instructions to install PostgreSQL 11 using official PostgreSQL packages.
rpm -Uvh https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install postgresql11-server postgresql11-contrib postgresql11-devel
/usr/pgsql-11/bin/postgresql-11-setup initdb
Starting PostgreSQL and enabling the service
systemctl start postgresql-11
systemctl enable postgresql-11
EPEL
Enable Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).
yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release
Install Python 3 and supporting modules
Check if Python 3 is already installed on your system by running the following shell command and reviewing the Python 3 console:
[tactic@localhost ~]$ python3
Python 3.6.8 (default, Aug 7 2019, 17:28:10)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Python 3.7 is recommended for TACTIC 4.7. If Python 3.7 is not available, Python 3.6 can be used instead.
Install Python 3 using yum:
yum install python3
In CentOS 7, the above command will install Python 3.6 by default. We will need to install Python 3 supporting modules. In CentOS 7, the modules are python36-xxx instread of python3-xxx.
yum install python36-pycryptodomex python36-lxml python36-requests python36-pytz
Alternatively you can also install these modules using pip.
pip3 install pycryptodomex
pip3 install lxml
pip3 install requests
pip3 install pytz
Install Python DB connectivity module.
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PostgreSQL:
yum install python3-psycopg2
Install ImageMagick
yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-perl
Install ffmpeg
rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
yum install ffmpeg
Install Apache
yum install httpd
firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
Starting Apache and enabling the service for the startup
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd
Install TACTIC RPM
Download the TACTIC RPM from community site downloads page.
rpm -Uhv <TACTIC-RPM-file>
Configure PostgreSQL
Note: TACTIC requires database access, and for ease of installation, we recommend using the PostgreSQL configuration file provided in the source code. After installation, you can further configure and secure your database.
Replace the file,
/var/lib/pgsql11/data/pg_hba.conf
with,
/opt/tactic/tactic/src/install/postgresql/pg_hba.conf
Restart PostgreSQL,
systemctl restart postgresql-11
Run TACTIC Bootstrap
sudo su - tactic
python3 /opt/tactic/tactic/src/pyasm/search/upgrade/postgresql/bootstrap_load.py
Starting TACTIC service
sudo systemctl start tactic
Or run the server from the command line:
python3 /opt/tactic/tactic/src/bin/startup_dev.py