Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:22 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am installing LedgerSMB, 1.2.15, on a machine running Ubuntu Gutsy >> (7.10). I am no expert in databases and accounting. Given this, here is >> what I experienced: > > Thank you for taking the time to write this up, it's very helpful!
You are welcome. I just hope this is helpful to others in my position. >> 1. I first did what README.debian told me to do. That went okay. >> Basically it asked me to install a bunch of debs and a few cpan modules. > > Hmmm, what README.debian did you use? This doesn't sound like the > /usr/share/doc/ledgersmb/README.Debian that shipped with the 1.2.15 > .deb release Sorry, not the deb release, the .tgz release. I attempted to install the deb form Debian's alioth project (they have 1.2.15-2, which presumably supports PG 8.2!), but dpkg gave an error and wouldn't install that package. Since this was on Ubuntu, I figured I better not continue with the Debian deb. I was quite surprised though, that the deb did not work on Ubuntu Gutsy. This is what I got: $> sudo dpkg -i ledgersmb_1.2.15-2_all.deb [sudo] password for gsq: (Reading database ... 177269 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ledgersmb (from ledgersmb_1.2.15-2_all.deb) ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe in copy) dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing ledgersmb_1.2.15-2_all.deb (--install): short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./etc/ledgersmb/templates/German-packing_list.tex') Errors were encountered while processing: ledgersmb_1.2.15-2_all.deb >> BTW, while testing the build, it asked me install two additional >> modules. So I guess this prerequisites file was missing them. > > Do you happen to remember which these were so we can work toward > getting them included for the .deb? I should have remembered. Actually I kept a log of the installation steps. But it appears I lost the file someplace *feeling embarrassed*. I was remotely and it was very lated in the night (early morning) and things got a bit mixed up. Sorry. In any case, testing the build told me what was missing and I used cpan to install those. >> 4. Then I started to follow the Manual Install in the INSTALL file. > > OK, so I'm thinking maybe you weren't using > /usr/share/doc/ledgersmb/README.Debian and that's why you started > using the regular INSTALL file. Typically in a Debian package we Yup, you are right, I was using the tgz (see above). Regards. ->HS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
