Here are the instructions I've put together for installing LS on a new Debian squeeze install:
---++ Set up of ledgersmb ---+++ Get ledgersmb files As this was to be installed as a website outside of the packaging system a new user account called ledgersmb was created to hold the website files. <verbatim> $ cd ~ $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ledger-smb/ledgersmb/1.3.23/ledgersmb-1.3.23.tar.gz $ tar -xvzf ledgersmb-1.3.23.tar.gz $ mv ledgersmb-1.3.23 web </verbatim> So, the files of ledgersmb are now in /home/ledgersmb/web ---+++ Install base packages <verbatim> # apt-get install apache2 # apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib </verbatim> NB - This is different from the LedgerSMB INSTALL file which says to install postgresql-server. ---+++ Set up smbledger database admin user <verbatim> # su - postgres postgres@whizzer2:~$ createuser -s -P lsadmin Enter password for new role: Enter it again: postgres@whizzer2:~$</verbatim> </verbatim> The default set up of pg_hba.conf on Postgresql on Debian means that accounts are already set to authenticate via md5. ---+++ Install extra packages required by LedgerSMB Here we will install all perl packages that we can from Debian archive so that we don't need to get many from cpan. =apt-get install libdatetime-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-pg-perl libcgi-simple-perl libtemplate-perl libconfig-std-perl libmime-lite-perl liberror-perl liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl libtest-exception-perl libtest-trap-perl liblog-log4perl-perl libmath-bigint-gmp-perl libfile-mimeinfo-perl= We also need extra packages to be able to create PDF files. =apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended= NB - This will install quite a few packages. This package may also be needed so it is good to install it now. =apt-get install libxml-twig-perl= Now we need to use the built-in perl package checker and downloader. Before running the command it is necessary to install the following package to allow the 'perl Makefile.PL' command to work: =sudo apt-get install libmodule-install-perl= Then - we will run LedgerSMB's own script to check all necessary perl libriaries are available. As root cd into the base directory (/home/ledgersmb/web) and then run: =perl Makefile.PL= Which gives output and at the end of the output we have: <verbatim> ... ==> Auto-install the 1 mandatory module(s) from CPAN? [y] [Size detection for images for embedding in LaTeX templates] - Image::Size ...missing. ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y [POS module credit card processing support] - Net::TCLink ...missing. ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y [Experimental scripting engine] - Parse::RecDescent ...missing. ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] [Developer tool dependencies] - Getopt::Long ...loaded. (2.38) - FileHandle ...loaded. (2.02) - Locale::Country ...loaded. (2.07) - Locale::Language ...loaded. (2.07) [PDF and Postscript output] - Template::Plugin::Latex ...missing. (would need 1) ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y [OpenOffice.org output] - XML::Twig ...loaded. (3.34) - OpenOffice::OODoc ...missing. ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y *** Dependencies will be installed the next time you type 'make'. *** Module::AutoInstall configuration finished. include inc/Module/Install/WriteAll.pm include inc/Module/Install/Win32.pm include inc/Module/Install/Can.pm include inc/Module/Install/Fetch.pm Warning: prerequisite IO::Scalar 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite Image::Size 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite Net::TCLink 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite OpenOffice::OODoc 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite Template::Plugin::Latex 1 not found. Writing Makefile for LedgerSMB Writing META.yml root@whizzer2:/home/ledgersmb/web#</verbatim> Not currently sure as whether or not to run 'make install' as per the INSTALL file. Need to confirm with Chris Travers if this is needed. Now - this is not in the INSTALL file - and we're guessing a bit here - but we're going to copy ledgersmb.conf.default to ledgersmb.conf and then edit the contrib_dir configuration to point to /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib as this is where it looks like the contrib files are located. ---+++ Setting up Apache Now we need to set up the Apache configuration. We have used a standard Apache2 installation and if Apache ITK is used then the instructions may need to be different. =cp ledgersmb-httpd.conf.template /etc/apache2/conf.d/ledgersmb-httpd.conf= Then edit this file and change WORKING_DIR to the base directory of the ledgersmb files. Also, if it is needed to access LS from other machines the lines about allowing only from localhost/127.0.0.1 and changed to 'Allow from All'. <verbatim> # 17/10/2012 - kbailey # Allow from 127.0.0.1 # Allow from localhost Allow from All </verbatim> Need to enable the mod_rewrite module for Apache: <verbatim> # a2enmod rewrite # apache2ctl restart </verbatim> ---+++ Set up databases It should be possible to access: http://servername/ledgersmb/setup.pl And login with the Postgresql user created previously and create new databases etc. Hope these are of use. Kevin Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list Ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
