edX Mint 16 Installation

This guide is based on edX Ubuntu 12.04 Installation. You should follow the guide there and use this as a troubleshooting.

apt_repository says Linux Mint is unsupported

after run:

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

run:

sudo pip install -U ansible

to update ansible (current version is 1.4.3)

Then change /usr/share/ansible/packaging/apt_repository:

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>     def _codename(self):
>         return distro.codename
> 
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<         line = 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/%s/%s/ubuntu %s main' % (ppa_owner, ppa_name, distro.codename)
---
>         line = 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/%s/%s/ubuntu %s main' % (ppa_owner, ppa_name, self._codename())
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<             file = file or self._suggest_filename('%s_%s' % (line, distro.codename))
---
>             file = file or self._suggest_filename('%s_%s' % (line, self._codename()))
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> class MintSourcesList(UbuntuSourcesList):
>     CODENAME_MAP = {
>         'petra': 'saucy',
>         'olivia': 'raring',
>         'nadia': 'quantal',
>         'maya': 'precise',
>         'lisa': 'oneiric',
>         'katya': 'natty'
>     }
> 
>     def _codename(self):
>         return self.CODENAME_MAP[distro.codename]
> 
> 
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>     elif distro.id == 'LinuxMint':
>         sourceslist = MintSourcesList(add_ppa_signing_keys_callback=get_add_ppa_signing_key_callback(module))

If you had installed mariadb => need complete remove it (complete remove => remove all config file in /etc)

If you had set mysql root password => remove it:

mysqladmin -u root -pYourPassword password ''

if error:

node_modules/.bin/coffee --compile `find lms/ cms/ common/ -type f -name *.coffee` 
/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
rake aborted!

=> need:

cd /usr/bin && sudo ln -s nodejs node

Tips

You can add the follwing args to ansible-playbook to speedup the install process: --forks=12 --start-at-task=<task_name>

And/Or: remove all update_cache=yes in configuration/playbooks/roles/