Getting savapage running on pi with nethserver

Shane_Treweek · August 22, 2021, 3:14am

Hi I’m in the process of trying to bring some of the various software solutions currently running on nethserver to the RPI version I’m starting with sava page.

So far ive followed the steps for Arm development setup for NS7 (how to get started)

changing the steps for nano to use this package from mrmarkuz repo in compiling

next i installed the dependencies nethserver-avahi and nethserver-cups
and installed the nethserver-savapage package that was compiled everything installed fine but I’m thinking that some settings need to be manually configured i did look at userguide:savapage but not sure what to configure as this is new to me i thought id open this topic to ask for suggestions

mrmarkuz · August 22, 2021, 11:41am

Great work, would be nice if we could release savapage for arm.

It should be possible to use the browser to configure savapage:

https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=savapagemodule

Link to recent (unfortunately untested) PR:

Shane_Treweek · August 23, 2021, 12:08am

just for reference savapage forum topic on single board computer

mark_nl · August 23, 2021, 5:41am

@Shane_Treweek, you picked a challenging package to port to armhfp

A few tips/observations : the savapage-setup-1.4.0-rc-linux-x64.bin is actually a (self extracting?) gzip.

I would start by unpacking that and identify the real ach depended "bin"s,
they ( savapage-nss and savapage-pam) can be found in:
\savapage\server\bin\

and ( savapage-cups-notifier) in:
savapage\providers\cups\linux-x64\

maybe on more places though,
I think this repository gives some clues how it’s packaged:

mark_nl · August 23, 2021, 5:58am

@mrmarkuz actually SavaPage 1.3.0 released also see https://www.savapage.org/download/installer/

mark_nl · August 24, 2021, 7:28am

to build the (cpp) binaries…

(from bash history, so hope did not forget something)
make a build chroot which can be resused

sudo cp /etc/mock/nethserver-7-armhfp.cfg /etc/mock/savapage-7-armhfp.cfg

sudo nano /etc/mock/savapage-7-armhfp.cfg

change the chroot name

....
config_opts['root'] = 'savapage-7-armhfp'
....

now we ready to go

mock -r savapage-7-armhfp --init
mock -r savapage-7-armhfp --install libstdc++-static cups-devel pam-devel git nano

log into chroot and go to home dir and make a dir (build) for the results

mock -r savapage-7-armhfp --shell --enable-network
cd && pwd
mkdir build

cloning git repo’s

git clone https://gitlab.com/savapage/xmlrpcpp.git 
git clone https://gitlab.com/savapage/savapage-cups-notifier.git 
git clone https://gitlab.com/savapage/savapage-nss.git 
git clone https://gitlab.com/savapage/savapage-pam.git

mkdir build

build xmlrpcpp first, it is dependency for savapage-cups-notifier
(it gets statically-linked so we do not need the result of xmlrpcpp)

cd xmlrpcpp/
make all

then what you need:

cd ../savapage-cups-notifier/
make all
cp target/savapage-notifier ~/build

cd ../savapage-nss/
make all
cp target/savapage-nss ~/build/

cd ../savapage-pam/
make all
cp target/savapage-pam ~/build/

exit

get the results

mock -r savapage-7-armhfp --copyout /builddir/build/ $(pwd)/build

Hope it works for you…

Shane_Treweek · August 24, 2021, 8:04am

Thanks I’ll try compiling tonight

mark_nl · August 24, 2021, 4:21pm

I hacked something together which seems to install

yum install nethserver-avahi nethserver-postgresql nethserver-cups
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel \
poppler-utils ImageMagick binutils which gzip perl avahi-tools \
shadow-utils

getent group savapage >/dev/null || groupadd -r savapage
getent passwd savapage >/dev/null || \
useradd -r -g savapage -d /opt/savapage -s /bin/bash \
-c "Savapage user" savapage

mkdir -p /opt/savapage
chown savapage:savapage /opt/savapage

download the arm savapage setup bin to /opt/savapage and install it with

chmod +x savepage-setup....
chown savapage:savapage savepage-setup...
su savapage -c ./savepage-setup....

As said it is a kind of hacked…
If it works we (you ) need to makeup some build strategy for it.

Shane_Treweek · August 25, 2021, 3:24am

i should be able to automate the install with a script (im also in the process of writing a script to automate the build from source then create folder structure and upload to repo and refresh so you just need to input name of package and location of source) but so far so good not fully tested but results look promising

mark_nl · August 25, 2021, 5:14am

what about packaging the 3 (arch depended) binaries in rpm’s who are installing those in /opt/savapage-bin-armv7l/ (or something like that) ?

These rpm’s would be pure a build-requirement for the armv7l savapage setup bin.

This would eliminate the need to build those manually (other then make-rpms savapage-notifier.spec)
As they get installed in a predictable place they can be used by a x84 > armv7l conversion script.

mark_nl · August 25, 2021, 11:56am

The resulting binaries get installed in /opt/savapage-bin-%{_target}/ which on arm 32bit expands to /opt/savapage-bin-armv7l-linux/

robb · August 27, 2021, 5:22pm

Lets ping @rijkr
Do you have any suggestions on this Rijk? thanks!

rijkr · August 27, 2021, 6:20pm

There was already some discussion on the SavaPage Community forum and I saw that the build and install of the arm variant was successful. I’m not familiar with how SavaPage is fitted into NethServer, but if you need something extra in SavaPage to facilitate the integration of the arm (cpp) binaries, please let me know.

Shane_Treweek · August 28, 2021, 9:08am

just wanted to point out incase it’s not installed you may need the following

sudo yum install cups-devel.armv7hl pam-devel make gcc

mark_nl · August 28, 2021, 11:40am

Yes if you build on the host.

Note if you build on the host-system you build against the libraries ( cups-devel, pam-devel) from the host-distro which may differ from the target distro (ie Fedora as host el7 as target)

Personally prefer to build in a clean build-chroot isolated from my host,
And that is what mock does, it sets up a (systemd-nspawn) container to build the packages

Shane_Treweek · August 28, 2021, 11:14pm

That makes sense I ran into an issue using mock for some reason it says git not available

mark_nl · August 29, 2021, 5:13am

Can it be you forgot ---enable-network ?

mrmarkuz · September 1, 2021, 12:25am

I got following warning when using make-rpms but I think it can be ignored.

prep-sources [WARNING] git not installed, or git repository not found!

Shane_Treweek · September 29, 2021, 12:21am

still haven’t had a chance to build the package but i noticed every time the server restarts or you issue systemctl daemon-reload
savapage.service is not loaded

my work around is as follows

change /usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service
to

This

#
# This file is part of the SavaPage project <https://www.savapage.org>.
# Copyright (c) 2011-2018 Datraverse B.V.
# Author: Rijk Ravestein.
#
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#
[Unit]
Description=SavaPage Open Print Portal
After=network.target cups.service

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/opt/savapage/server/logs/service.pid
User=savapage
Group=savapage
LimitNOFILE=65536
ExecStart=/opt/savapage/server/bin/linux-armv7l/app-server start
ExecStop=/opt/savapage/server/bin/linux-armv7l/app-server stop
Restart=on-success

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# end-of file

Not sure if the permission was already set to this but in case it wasn’t
chmod 644 /usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service
chown root:root /usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service
then symlink
ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/savapage.service
then enable
cd /etc/systemd/system/ && systemctl enable savapage.service
reboot

systemctl status savapage
● savapage.service - SavaPage Open Print Portal
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 10:00:15 AEST; 51 years 8 months ago
  Process: 700 ExecStart=/opt/savapage/server/bin/linux-armv7l/app-server start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1245 (java)
   CGroup: /system.slice/savapage.service
           ├─1245 java -server -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCApplic...
           ├─3810 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -accept=so...
           └─3838 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -accept=so...
[truncated]

and `systemctl daemon-reload’

systemctl status savapage
● savapage.service - SavaPage Open Print Portal
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/savapage.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 10:00:15 AEST; 51 years 8 months ago
  Process: 700 ExecStart=/opt/savapage/server/bin/linux-armv7l/app-server start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1245 (java)
   CGroup: /system.slice/savapage.service
           ├─1245 java -server -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCApplic...
           ├─3810 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -accept=so...
           └─3838 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -accept=so...
[truncated]

P.S. ignore the part about running for 51 years i changed the ntp to a government one and didnt configure the authentication correctly and said my server date was in the 1970s now it’s working right it says it’s been running for 51years