1. Qube
2. Qube! Documentation
3. Administrator's Guide
4. Additional Installation Information
5. Installing Qube! Manually

Installing Qube! Manually

It is generally easier and quicker to use the new Qube! Installer for all installs and upgrades. However, if you have a requirement for manual installs, you can follow these steps. For all of the software components, it is usually required to login you will need to log in as an Administrator account (Windows), log in as root , or use " sudo ", (Linux) or know the Administrator password (for OS X dialog popup)

Qube Core Installation

Linux:

1. Install the Core RPM (where linux is the type of Linux platform (e.g.. RHEL_WS-3.i386) and ver is the version of Qube):
2. rpm ivh qubever-linux.rpm

Windows.

You should install the Supervisor first, and then any Workers and/or Clients. It is better to have the Supervisor waiting for Workers to show up, than the other way around.

Prerequisites

Linux

Linux requires the following be installed on the Supervisor and Worker machines

The supervisor requires the following packages to be present:

• mysql
• mysql-server
• xinetd

We suggest installing all the required packages with 'yum', as we test against the MySQL versions that ship with that distro.

Windows / OS X

Certain capabilities of Qube! require Perl and Python be installed on Workers and Clients. However, if you don't install these languages, Qube! will still function, but with fewer features and conveniences.

Download the Components

The components are available from the PipelineFX downloads site, via http.

• Core/Supervisor/Worker: http://pipelinefx.com/downloads/pub/qube/current/
• WranglerView: http://pipelinefx.com/downloads/pub/qubegui/current/
• ArtistView: http://pipelinefx.com/downloads/pub/qubeArtistView/current/
• Jobtypes: http://pipelinefx.com/downloads/pub/jobtypes/current/

Linux

Installing the Supervisor

1. Disable selinux and firewall using "setup" or available initial boot setup utility

2. [optional] Mount required network locations using /etc/fstab

3. Use package installation manager such as yum or apt-get to install "xinetd" & "mysql-server"

4. Download the required packages for your distribution qube-core, qube-supervisor.  Optionally download qubegui. 

5. Install qube-core package with command rpm –ivh qube-core-*.rpm

6. Install qube-supervisor package with command rpm –ivh qube-supervisor-*.rpm

7. [optional] Using your favorite editor, edit /etc/bashrc to contain the lines :

export QBDIR=/usr/local/pfx/qube
 
export PATH=$PATH:$QBDIR/bin:$QBDIR/sbin

Installing the Worker

1. Ensure that the worker has all necessary rendering software installed and licensed.
2. Disable selinux and firewall using "setup" or available initial boot setup utility.
3. Mount required network locations using /etc/fstab.
4. Use package installation manager such as yum or apt-get to ensure "xinetd" is installed.
5. Download required packages for your distribution: qube-core, qube-worker. Optionally download qubegui and any pertinent jobtypes.
6. Install qube-core package with command rpm –ivh qube-core-*
7. Install qube-worker package with command rpm –ivh qube-worker-*
8. Install qube-qui package with command rpm –ivh qubegui*

Installing the Client

1. Install the ArtistView UI with the command:  rpm -ivh qubeArtistView-<ver>.<linux>.rpm
2. Make sure that /usr/local/pfx/qube/bin is in the user's PATH variable

Windows

Qube! Core: 

1. Install the qube Core MSI by double-clicking the icon. A short message describing the installation will be displayed. If you need to stop the installation, click Cancel at any time.
   

Qube! Supervisor:

1. Install the Qube Supervisor MSI by double-clicking the icon. A short message describing the installation will be displayed. If you need to stop the installation, click Cancel at any time:
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2. Once installed, the Supervisor daemon starts up, and the system will be configured to automatically start up the Supervisor anytime the host is rebooted.
3. On Windows, the installer will also install and start up the MySQL service, followed by the installation and start up of the supervisor or qubesupervisor service.

Qube! Worker:

1. Install the Qube Worker MSI by double-clicking the icon. A short message describing the installation will be displayed. If you need to stop the installation, click Cancel at any time.
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WranglerView UI:

1. Double–click the .MSI file to install the GUI.
2. Follow the step–by–step instructions in the MSI installer application.
3. From the Start Menu, select Pipelinefx➡Qube to launch the GUI

OS X:

1. Double-click the downloaded .dmg file in order to mount tie image containing the .pkg file. Open the disk image. Double-click the qube-core .pkg file to launch the Installer..
2. The Installer will present a series of screens. Click Continue to proceed. If you need to abort the installation, select Quit from the File menu:
   
   
3. Installation of the Qube software requires authentication by an Administrative user. If not running as root,tType in the user name and password of a user with Administrator privileges and click OK to continue with the installation: 
   
   

Install the Supervisor

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Install with the platform-specific installer process listed below. Once installed, the Supervisor daemon starts up, and the system will be configured to automatically start up the Supervisor anytime the host is rebooted.
On Windows and OS X, the installer will also install and start up the MySQL service, followed by the installation and start up of the supervisor or qubesupervisor service.

Linux:

1. Install the Supervisor RPM:
2. rpm ivh qube-supervisorver-linux.rpm

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1. Install the Qube Supervisor MSI by double-clicking the icon. A short message describing the installation will be displayed. If you need to stop the installation, click Cancel at any time:
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OS X:

1. Double-click the downloaded .dmg file in order to mount tie image containing the .pkg file. Open the disk image. Double-click the qube-supervisor .pkg file to launch the Installer.
2. The Installer will present a series of screens. Click Continue to proceed. If you need to abort the installation, select Quit from the File menu:
   
3. Installation of the Qube software requires authentication by an Administrative user. If not running as root,tType in the user name and password of a user with Administrator privileges and click OK to continue with the installation:

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Where linux is the type of Linux platform (e.g.. RHEL_WS-3.i386) and ver is the version of Qube.

Windows:

1. Install the Qube Worker MSI by double-clicking the icon. A short message describing the installation will be displayed. If you need to stop the installation, click Cancel at any time.
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OS X

1. Double-click the downloaded .dmg file in order to mount tie image containing the .pkg file. Open the disk image. Double-click the qube-worker .pkg file to launch the Installer.
2. The Installer will present a series of screens. Click Continue to proceed. If you need to abort the installation, select Quit from the File menu: 
   
3. Installation of the Qube software requires authentication by an Administrative user. If not running as root, Type in the user name and password of a user with Administrator privileges and click OK to continue with the installation:

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1. Install the QubeGUI RPM:
2. rpm ivh qubeguiversionreleaseos.platform.rpm
3. Launch it from /usr/local/pfx/qube/bin/qube

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1. Double–click the .MSI file to install the GUI.
2. Follow the step–by–step instructions in the MSI installer application.
3. From the Start Menu, select Pipelinefx➡Qube to launch the GUI

OS X:

1. Double–click on the .dmg file to mount the disk image file. Open the disk image, and double–click the .pkg file to begin the GUI installation.
2. Follow the step–by–step instructions in the Installer application.
3. Double–click the qube icon to launch the GUI under /Applications/pfx/qube.

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The application interfaces with these back-end scripts need to be installed on the Workers. Similarly, there are a few jobtypes that also have front-end scripts to provide in-application submission that should be installed on the Client machines.
See http://www.pipelinefx.com/products/supported-applications and http://www.pipelinefx.com/docs for details on the specific application interfaces that you are using.

Tip
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One You can centrally install these jobtypes centrally on a network fileserver. See the configuration parameter worker_template_path for the search path used by the Workers for their jobtypes.

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