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Daz Studio and PostgreSQL CMS

Daz Studio 4.9 uses PostgreSQL CMS (a module) to store data. It is a database (backend database). Due to admin privileges being too high with wine, we can NOT install and star the PostgreSQL database provided with. We need less privileges.

HOWEVER even if Wine is not able to install the PostgreSQL database -- as a simple workaround -- we can install a PostgreSQL database natively on Linux . Let's first check which PostgreSQL version is used by Daz Studio

PostgreSQL version used by Daz Studio

We have

• For the version

  david@amdgaming:/opt/Builds/wine/data/Daz_Studio/drive_c/Program Files/DAZ 3D$ wine "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/DAZ 3D/PostgreSQL CMS"/bin/psql.exe --version
  psql (PostgreSQL) 9.3.4

• For the options

  david@amdgaming:/opt/Builds/wine/data/Daz_Studio/drive_c/Program Files/DAZ 3D$ wine"${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/DAZ 3D/PostgreSQL CMS"/bin/pg_config --configure
  --enable-thread-safety --enable-integer-datetimes --enable-nls --with-ldap --with-ossp-uuid --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python
  

Daz Studio used PostgreSQL 9.3.4.

Build PostgreSQL 9.3.4 from sources

Let's build PostgreSQL 9.3.4 from sources

Notice: I took decision to not install PostgreSQL by my packages software (apt-get) because PostgreSQL version can be too old or too recent

sudo su
wget "https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.3.4/postgresql-9.3.4.tar.bz2"
tar xvjf postgresql-9.3.4.tar.bz2 
apt-get install libossp-uuid-dev libperl-dev libpython-dev
cd postgresql-9.3.4
./configure --prefix=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.3.4 --enable-thread-safety --enable-integer-datetimes --enable-nls --with-ldap --with-ossp-uuid --with-libxml --with-libxslt  --with-perl --with-python
make -j4
make install
cd contrib/
make -j4
make install

Configure the PostgreSQL cluster

• Log out and get back to your current Linux user
• Update your environment variables PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include paths to its bin and lib folder.

  export PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.3.4/bin/:$PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.3.4/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Then initialize the PostgreSQL cluster

  initdb -A trust /home/david/daz_studio_cms

Apply recommendations from http://amyaimei.deviantart.com/journal/Install-DAZ-Studio-4-9-0-63-32-bit-on-Linux-593421068

• Here is the content of my PostgreSQL configuration file /home/david/daz_studio_cms/postgresql.conf without comments

  david@amdgaming:~$ grep -E '^[a-z]' /home/david/daz_studio_cms/postgresql.conf|sed -e "s:\#.*::g"
  max_connections = 100			
  shared_buffers = 512MB			
  temp_buffers = 30MB			
  log_destination = 'stderr'		
  logging_collector = on		
  log_directory = 'pg_log'		
  log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log'	
  log_connections = on
  log_line_prefix = '%t [%a] [database=%d user=%u host=%h pid=%p]\n'			
  log_timezone = 'Europe/Paris'
  stats_temp_directory = 'pg_stat_tmp'
  datestyle = 'iso, dmy'
  timezone = 'Europe/Paris'
  lc_messages = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'			
  lc_monetary = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'			
  lc_numeric = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'			
  lc_time = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'				
  default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.french'
  

• Start the PostgreSQL server

  /home/david/daz_studio_cms

• Create a temporary file with the following content

  david@amdgaming:~$ cat zozo.sql 
  CREATE ROLE dzcms LOGIN SUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB CREATEROLE REPLICATION;
  
  CREATE DATABASE "Content" WITH OWNER = dzcms ENCODING = 'UTF8' TABLESPACE = pg_default  CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
  
  \c Content
  
  CREATE EXTENSION citext
   SCHEMA public
   VERSION "1.0";
  
  ALTER ROLE dzcms
   SET search_path = dzcontent, public;
  

• Apply it. Using psql its output should be similar to below output

  david@amdgaming:~$ psql postgres -e -f zozo.sql
  CREATE ROLE dzcms LOGIN SUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB CREATEROLE REPLICATION;
  CREATE ROLE
  CREATE DATABASE "Content" WITH OWNER = dzcms ENCODING = 'UTF8' TABLESPACE = pg_default  CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
  CREATE DATABASE
  Vous êtes maintenant connecté à la base de données « Content » en tant qu'utilisateur « david ».
  CREATE EXTENSION citext
   SCHEMA public
   VERSION "1.0";
  CREATE EXTENSION
  ALTER ROLE dzcms
   SET search_path = dzcontent, public;
  ALTER ROLE
  

PostgreSQL CMS - Installation

• While PostgreSQL CMS is still being downloaded from the main manager (see below image)
  PostgreSQL CMS is stillbeing downloaded Daz Studio has just written a file = ${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/users/${YOUR_USER}/Application\ Data/DAZ\ 3D/cms/cmscfg.json
• Replace its content by this one

  {
  	"Port" : 5432,
  	"ConnectionURI" : "postgresql://dzcms@localhost:5432/Content"
  }
  

Then PostgreSQL CMS installation should be fine!

Here is the command line I used to sort wine switches/options

• WITH Gallium-Nine support and Without HAL support

  echo  $(echo -n $(./configure --help|grep -E '  \-\-with'|grep -vE '(PACKAGE|\-wine)'|sort|sed -e "s:without:with:g;s:with-hal:without-hal:g"|awk '{print $1}'|sort)) | \
  sed -e "s:--with-d3d9-nine-headers-path --with-d3d9-nine-module:--with-d3d9-nine-module=auto --with-d3d9-nine-headers-path=auto:g"

  Should print something like

  --with-alsa --with-capi --with-cms --with-coreaudio --with-cups --with-curses --with-d3d9-nine --with-d3d9-nine-module=auto --with-d3d9-nine-headers-path=auto \
  --with-dbus --with-fontconfig --with-freetype --with-gettext --with-gettextpo --with-glu --with-gnutls --with-gphoto --with-gsm --with-gstreamer --with-gtk3 --with-jpeg --with-ldap \
  --with-mpg123 --with-netapi --with-openal --with-opencl --with-opengl --with-osmesa --with-oss --without-hal --with-pcap --with-png --with-pthread --with-pulse --with-sane --with-tiff \
  --with-udev --with-v4l --with-va --with-x --with-xattr --with-xcb --with-xcomposite --with-xcursor --with-xinerama --with-xinput --with-xinput2 --with-xml --with-xrandr --with-xrender\
   --with-xshape --with-xshm --with-xslt --with-xxf86vm --with-zlib

• WITHOUT Gallium-Nine support and Without HAL support if you use NVIDIA GPU

  echo  $(echo -n $(./configure --help|grep -E '  \-\-with'|grep -vE '(PACKAGE|\-wine)'|sort|sed -e "s:without:with:g;s:with-hal:without-hal:g"|awk '{print $1}'|sort)) 

  Should print something like

  --with-alsa --with-capi --with-cms --with-coreaudio --with-cups --with-curses --with-dbus --with-fontconfig --with-freetype --with-gettext --with-gettextpo --with-glu \
  --with-gnutls --with-gphoto --with-gsm --with-gstreamer --with-gtk3 --with-jpeg --with-ldap --with-mpg123 --with-netapi --with-openal --with-opencl --with-opengl --with-osmesa \
  --with-oss --without-hal --with-pcap --with-png --with-pthread --with-pulse --with-sane --with-tiff --with-udev --with-v4l --with-va --with-x --with-xattr --with-xcb --with-xcomposite \
  --with-xcursor --with-xinerama --with-xinput --with-xinput2 --with-xml --with-xrandr --with-xrender --with-xshape --with-xshm --with-xslt --with-xxf86vm --with-zlib

This ticket is just a reminder on how to upgrade my old kernel 4.4.36 to kernel 4.4.53 using incrementals patches. [more]

• Go to the sources folder and clean up its content using make mrproper

  cd /opt/Sources/linux-4.4
  make mrproper

• Create a temporary folder tmp_sources for all patches

  cd /opt/Sources/linux-4.4
  mkdir tmp_patches
  cd tmp_patches

• Download patches

  for((inc=36;inc<=52;inc++));
  do 
  wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/incr/patch-4.4.${inc}-$(expr ${inc} + 1).xz -O - | xz -d > patch-4.4.${inc}-$(expr ${inc} + 1);
  done

• Content of the current folder is

  /opt/Sources/linux-4.4/tmp_patch# ls
  patch-4.4.36-37  patch-4.4.38-39  patch-4.4.40-41  patch-4.4.42-43  patch-4.4.44-45  patch-4.4.46-47  patch-4.4.48-49  patch-4.4.50-51  patch-4.4.52-53
  patch-4.4.37-38  patch-4.4.39-40  patch-4.4.41-42  patch-4.4.43-44  patch-4.4.45-46  patch-4.4.47-48  patch-4.4.49-50  patch-4.4.51-52
  

• Apply these patches

  cd ..
  for((inc=36;inc<=52;inc++));
  do 
  patch -p1 < tmp_patch/patch-4.4.${inc}-$(expr ${inc} + 1);
  done

Time to buidl the kernel

• Configure the kernel

  make menuconfig

• Build everything

  make -j4 bzImage modules

  Notice: If you have a DVD or a film to watch then enjoy it! Above commands should take a while to be executed.

  On my PC with CPU=i5-4430, it took 30 minutes.

• Install

  make -j4 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install
  make -j4 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 install
  make -j4 INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 headers_install
  

  Notice: INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 is pretty useful. This flag helps to install binaries with a smaller size

I started this documentation a couple days ago. I tested it twice on Linux Mint 18 64 Bits

The documentation is available here