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Install RT on Ubuntu system - Tested with Ubuntu 10.4 Lts
 
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''NOTE: This is user-contributed documentation and may contain errors or omissions (in the past, this documentation caused folks to wind up with an unstyled RT).  Please use in conjunction with the stock installation instructions and help us keep this documentation up-to-date and accurate by editing where appropriate.
 
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==Install Dependancies==
 
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== Installation ==
 
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Follow the [[Freeside:2.1:Documentation:RT_Installation#Installation|regular installation instructions]].
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* If your database is not on the local machine you will need to edit /opt/rt3/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm and set the DatabaseHost value
 
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* <pre><nowiki># make create-rt</nowiki></pre>
 
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** ''Authentication errors?''
 
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*** ''Edit <code>pg_hba.conf</code>, change "<code>ident sameuser</code>" auth to "<code>trust</code>" for the line starting with "<code>local all all</code>"''
 
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* <pre><nowiki>make install-rt</nowiki></pre>
 
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<pre><nowiki>make install-apache</nowiki></pre>
 
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* Set the '''ticket_system''' configuration value to <code>RT_Internal</code>.  (You may also wish to set '''ticket_system-default_queueid''' once you have RT configured.)
 
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*Click on "Ticketing Main" on the Freeside main menu to auto-create an RT login for your username
 
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*From "Billing Main", go to Configuration > Employees > View/Edit employees and add a temporary "root" user.  Note: the user name must be "root" (without the quotes).
 
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* Log into your Freeside installation as the "root" user you just created, by closing all of your browser windows, or by using <code><nowiki>https://root@yourmachone/freeside/</nowiki></code> syntax if your browser supports it.
 
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* Click on "Ticketing Main" on the Freeside main menu.  Go to Configuration > Ticketing > Ticketing Global, and then "User Rights".  Grant the "SuperUser" right to your normal RT/Freeside login.
 
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== Futher Reading ==
 
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* Follow the [http://wiki.bestpractical.com/ regular RT documentation] to configure RT, setup the mailgate, etc.
 

Latest revision as of 12:30, 23 November 2011

Introduction

Install RT on Ubuntu system - Tested with Ubuntu 10.4 Lts

Install Dependancies

  • Install dependancy for Crypt::SSLeay
apt-get install libssl-dev
  • Install Perl Modules (WTF, are none of these available as packages in Ubuntu? They should all be in Debian. -Ivan)
cpan Apache::Session HTML::TreeBuilder HTML::FormatText Test::Inline Class::ReturnValue DBIx::SearchBuilder Log::Dispatch Locale::Maketext::Lexicon 
cpan Locale::Maketext::Fuzzy Text::Wrapper Time::ParseDate Term::ReadKey Text::Autoformat Text::Quoted Regexp::Common HTML::Scrubber Tree::Simple
cpan Crypt::SSLeay GD::Graph UNIVERSAL::require XML::RSS Calendar::Simple GD::Graph GD::Text CSS::Squish 
cpan File::ShareDir HTML::RewriteAttributes MIME::Types  PerlIO::eol GnuPG::Interface Data::ICal Text::WikiFormat Net::Server
cpan HTTP::Server::Simple HTTP::Server::Simple::Mason Module::Versions::Report DateTime::Set IPC::Run::SafeHandles

Installation

Follow the regular installation instructions.

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