Freeside:1.9:Documentation:InstallingOnDebian5

Prerequisites

Operating System

• Basic Debian 5.0 "lenny" install - You will not need the desktop applications group.

Database Locale for PostgreSQL

• Set the locale correctly -
  • For the US, generate both en_US and en_US.UTF-8, but (IMPORTANT) pick en_US as the default...

 dpkg-reconfigure locales

• if /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf is already installed and has has lc_* = 'en_US.UTF-8', cluster will need to be dropped and re-initialized

pg_dropcluster 8.3 main --stop
pg_createcluster --locale en_US 8.3 main

Aptitude & Required Libraries

• Add the following apt source to /etc/apt/sources.list (for Debian 5.0 "lenny"):

deb http://freeside.biz/~ivan/freeside-lenny/ ./

• Run aptitude update.

• Run this command to install all prerequisites:

aptitude install \
 apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils cron \
 ghostscript gsfonts \
 libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 \
 libapache2-request-perl \
 libapache-session-perl libauthen-passphrase-perl \
 libbusiness-creditcard-perl libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl \
 libcache-cache-perl libcache-simple-timedexpiry-perl libcalendar-simple-perl \
 libchart-perl libclass-container-perl \
 libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-returnvalue-perl \
 libcolor-scheme-perl libcompress-zlib-perl \
 libconvert-binhex-perl \
 libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl libcss-squish-perl \
 libdatetime-perl libdatetime-format-strptime-perl \
 libdate-manip-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-pg-perl \
 libdbi-perl libdbix-dbschema-perl libdbix-searchbuilder-perl \
 libdevel-stacktrace-perl libdevel-symdump-perl \
 libdigest-sha1-perl libemail-sender-perl \
 libemail-sender-transport-smtp-tls-perl liberror-perl \
 libexception-class-perl \
 libfile-counterfile-perl libfile-rsync-perl \
 libfont-afm-perl libfreezethaw-perl \
 libfrontier-rpc-perl libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgd2-noxpm \
 libgd-graph-perl libgd-text-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-mason-perl \
 libhtml-parser-perl \
 libhtml-scrubber-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl \
 libhtml-widgets-selectlayers-perl libio-stringy-perl \
 libipc-run-perl libipc-run3-perl libipc-sharelite-perl \
 libjson-perl \
 liblingua-en-inflect-perl liblingua-en-nameparse-perl \
 liblocale-gettext-perl liblocale-maketext-fuzzy-perl \
 liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl liblocale-subcountry-perl \
 liblog-dispatch-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-perl \
 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-perl libnet-scp-perl \
 libnet-ssh-perl libnet-whois-raw-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl \
 libnumber-format-perl \
 libparams-validate-perl libparse-recdescent-perl \
 libplrpc-perl libregexp-common-perl \
 libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl libstring-approx-perl \
 libstring-shellquote-perl libterm-readkey-perl \
 libtest-inline-perl libtext-autoformat-perl \
 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-csv-perl libtext-iconv-perl \
 libtext-quoted-perl libtext-reform-perl \
 libtext-template-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl \
 libtext-wrapper-perl libtie-ixhash-perl \
 libtime-duration-perl libtime-modules-perl libtimedate-perl \
 libtree-simple-perl libuniversal-require-perl liburi-perl \
 libwant-perl libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-rss-perl \
 lmodern make perl perl-modules \
 postgresql postgresql-client \
 psfontmgr \
 rsync openssh-client \
 texlive texlive-latex-extra whois

Database Locale

• Set the locale correctly -
  • For the US, generate both en_US and en_US.UTF-8, but (IMPORTANT) pick en_US as the default...

 dpkg-reconfigure locales

• if /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf is already installed and has has lc_* = 'en_US.UTF-8', cluster will need to be dropped and re-initialized

pg_dropcluster 8.3 main --stop
pg_createcluster --locale en_US 8.3 main

Installation

Follow the regular installation instructions.