Jim and Ryan,
Thank you. I took your suggestions and succeeded.
I did have acs-service-contract installed before trying to
install news, so that was not the whole answer.
For posterity:
- start fresh with a new checkout
- install packages using http://yoursite.com/acs-admin/apm/ instead of http://yoursite.com/acs-admin/install/
- install packages one-by-one, according to dependencies shown by apm, restarting server between installs
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-7 openacs-4
cd openacs-4/packages/
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -d acs-events openacs-4/packages/acs-events
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -d acs-datetime openacs-4/packages/acs-datetime
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -d general-comments openacs-4/packages/general-comments
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -d news openacs-4/packages/news
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -d rss-support openacs-4/packages/rss-support
cd notifications/
cvs update
install acs-events
install acs-datetime
install general-comments
install notifications
install rss-support
install news