Fresh install in 2024

Alfredo Cole

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Sep 2, 2024, 1:00:47 PM9/2/24

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Hi everyone.

I would like to know if there is a sure fire way to install Concerto Digital Signage in 2024. I have followed the tutorials in the web page and Github pages and manage to get some part of the way done but I can never complete a full installation. The only way I have managed to get Concerto up and running is by booting up the Virtualbox Image. So far, I have done the following:

1. Install a VM with Debian Stretch. Install apache, mysql and mod_phusion_passenger. I also install all required packages. I always end up with problems on the gem packages not installing correctly as dependencies or args fail.

2. Same as above but using Debian Bookwork. It all fails on same place with gem packages.

3. I also tried with Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04.

Are all installations old and working or has anyone managed a fresh install in 2024?

Manfred

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Sep 4, 2024, 10:55:32 AM9/4/24

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Hello Alfredo,

similar painful experience with Debian 12 and 11. The issues do start with

"The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5D3340F0D5F858D4".

Several hints tried to fix this but no sucess.

Anyone out there who has a proper installation guide for current linux distributions?

Scott Alfter

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Oct 31, 2024, 4:18:50 PM10/31/24

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I was able to get the most recent Concerto running in Docker with a fix to the list of dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/concerto/concerto

cd concerto

sed -i "s/date (3.3.4)/date (2.0.3)/" Gemfile.lock

docker build -t concerto .

docker compose up -d

I have a PR in that should include this fix.

Last time I tried bringing up Concerto from source on a bare Debian install, it didn't go well. I have a server running with the however-many-years-old VM image provided by the Concerto team, but now I'm looking at migrating the data out of that into the containerized Concerto and running that instead.

Scott Alfter

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Oct 31, 2024, 4:40:37 PM10/31/24

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One more fix needed before bringing Concerto up:

sed -i "s/--authentication-policy=mysql_native_password //" docker-compose.yml

Bob Hall

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Dec 22, 2024, 4:49:14 PM12/22/24

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Hi there - thisis a bit late but I was able to get this running in ESXi both the server and the player with no issues. The only challenge I'm facing is buring the player iso to a USB... it says there is no OS but i'm trying to build it from a MAC so that's probably my issue LOL

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