Hi Vincenzo,
>
> > This issue with outdated packages is becoming a real problem with Ubuntu,
> > as the delay with newer packages depends mostly on Debian's.
> > I'll file another "bug" to Ubuntu for this in order to urge them to
> upgrade.
> >
> > Thanks again: I'm going to pull those 250+ packages and see if I can
> > manage to run it!
>
> I'am trying the PPA that's been suggested earlier on a fresh new
> Ubuntu installation (thanks to QEmu/KVM).
> I am preferring it to the Debian repository as the PPA should be more
> Ubuntu-oriented.
> I am referring to http://ledgersmb.org/topic/installing-ledgersmb-15
> for instructions.
>
Thanks for hanging in there and providing us with your feedback!
Before you consulted the installation instructions, didn't the installed
package work already?
Also this one is requiring me to pull 294 packages in and installed version
> "1.4.33+ds-1~ubuntu16.04.1".
> I checked that both apache module for perl and cpanm were missing.
>
I would expect that if the PPA works correctly (I'll test that later today)
then you should not need to install these two items.
> So I added them.
> Then I have checked the Perl "core" modules and found that libjson-perl,
> libpgobject-util-dbmethod-perl and libmoosex-nonmoose-perl were missing.
>
The missing libjson-perl dependency looks like a bug in the package. The
other two aren't required on the 1.4 branch (they are on the 1.5 branch!).
> All packages needed for PDF output were already in place as well as the
> "Stand-alone Perl server".
>
Of the 295 packages pulled, a large part are actually related to the PDF
stuff being pulled in (unfortunately).
> I also added the extra (?) "OpenOffice output document" stuff.
>
This bit isn't required to run LedgerSMB, unless you want to be able to
export OpenOffice documents. I'm getting by myself for years now without it
(I usually export HTML, CSV or PDF documents).
> I think that those missing bits should be pulled in as dependencies and
> not installed manually. In my opinion.
>
I think the OpenOffice part should probably be in the 'suggests' section of
the PPA/deb; it's not a regularly used option I would expect. (Exporting
CSV and using in Excel works pretty well too.)
> I then went to the CPAN modules section.
> For cpanm to work the "build-essential" package needs to be pulled in,
> so I added it.
>
I think you're getting lost here between the use of the PPA and the
installation of the pre-configured package.
That is: is your goal to run 1.5.0-development version? Or is your goal to
run 1.4.33/1.4.34? The instructions you're following are definitely related
to 1.5 installation (and not really good instructions for 1.4, as indicated
by the sentence "Please note that installation of version 1.5 is completely
different from the installation of versions 1.4 or earlier" in the
instructions). Since you're installing from package though, you shouldn't
be required to do much more than you already have on the steps above.
> The suggested command says: "cpanm --quiet --notest --installdeps ."
> but there is
> no detail about that "." which should be the place where the
> dependencies should be
> checked from.
That's a good point. However, the first sentence says "This page contains
the [...] installation instructions for LedgerSMB 1.5 [...] targetting
[...] installation *from release tarbals*" (emphasis on the page).
I'll enhance page to say that all commands are expected to be run from the
root of the extracted tarball unless otherwise noted.
> I have tried the installation path
> (/usr/share/ledgersmb) but it's still
> failing with the same error:
>
> ########
> cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7040 on perl 5.022001 built for
> x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
> Work directory is /home/support/.cpanm/work/1477739810.9419
> You have make /usr/bin/make
> You have LWP 6.15
> You have /bin/tar: tar (GNU tar) 1.28
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.
> html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> You have /usr/bin/unzip
> --> Working on /usr/share/ledgersmb/
> Entering /usr/share/ledgersmb
> Configuring /usr/share/ledgersmb
> -> N/A
> ! Configuring /usr/share/ledgersmb/ failed. See
> /home/support/.cpanm/work/1477739810.9419/build.log for details.
> ########
>
> I am not a Perl expert and am now stuck at this point.
> I have also walked the "debian path" but in the end I reach this same end
> point.
>
Normally, you should have been done already after installing the package
and optionally restarting Apache. Isn't it already working? If not, what's
in the apache error logs?
--
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