Freeside:2.1:Documentation:Installation:FreeBSD

Summary

FreeBSD 8.1 install of Freeside 2.1.1 + RT using ports (ports tree date 1/3/2011) where possible.

Please note this quick guide is written for someone already familiar with installing and maintaining a FreeBSD system. This is NOT a bare metal install guide. This guide leaves many apache modules that you may not need activated - feel free to pare things down once you have a working install.

Install a ton of ports

I use portmaster for most ports tasks. It's in ports-mgmt/portmaster.

Here's the list, as output by "portmaster --list-origins". If you save this list to a file, something like "portmaster `cat /tmp/fs-port-list` should install all of these:

devel/libtool
lang/python26
archivers/unzip
devel/automake
devel/gmake
misc/help2man
www/p5-Apache-DBI-mp2
www/p5-Apache-Session
security/p5-Authen-Passphrase
finance/p5-Business-CreditCard
textproc/p5-CSS-Squish
devel/p5-Calendar-Simple
graphics/p5-Color-Scheme
databases/p5-DBD-Pg
databases/p5-DBIx-SearchBuilder
deskutils/p5-Data-ICal
devel/p5-DateTime-Format-Natural
devel/p5-DateTime-Format-Strptime
devel/p5-DateTime-Set
security/p5-Digest-HMAC
mail/p5-Email-Sender
misc/p5-File-CounterFile
devel/p5-File-ShareDir
net/p5-Frontier-RPC
graphics/p5-GD-Graph
textproc/p5-HTML-Format
textproc/p5-HTML-RewriteAttributes
www/p5-HTML-Scrubber
www/p5-HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers
www/p5-HTTP-Server-Simple-Mason
devel/p5-Hash-AsObject
security/p5-IO-Socket-SSL
devel/p5-IPC-Run
devel/p5-IPC-Run-SafeHandles
converters/p5-JSON
textproc/p5-Lingua-EN-Inflect
textproc/p5-Lingua-EN-NameParse
misc/p5-Locale-Codes
devel/p5-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy
devel/p5-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon
misc/p5-Locale-SubCountry
devel/p5-Log-Dispatch
mail/p5-MIME-Tools
mail/p5-MIME-Types
devel/p5-Module-Versions-Report
dns/p5-Net-Domain-TLD
net/p5-Net-Ping
net/p5-Net-Ping-External
mail/p5-Net-SMTP-SSL
net/p5-Net-SSH
net/p5-Net-Server
net/p5-Net-Whois-Raw
net-mgmt/p5-NetAddr-IP
textproc/p5-Number-Format
devel/p5-POE
textproc/p5-Regexp-Common
textproc/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
devel/p5-String-Approx
textproc/p5-String-ShellQuote
devel/p5-Term-ReadKey
devel/p5-Test-Deep
devel/p5-Test-Exception
devel/p5-Test-Inline
devel/p5-Test-LongString
devel/p5-Test-Manifest
devel/p5-Test-Script
devel/p5-Test-Warn
textproc/p5-Text-CSV_XS
textproc/p5-Text-Quoted
textproc/p5-Text-Template
textproc/p5-Text-WikiFormat
textproc/p5-Text-Wrapper
devel/p5-Tie-IxHash
devel/p5-Time-Duration
devel/p5-Time-modules
devel/p5-Tree-Simple
devel/p5-UNIVERSAL-require
textproc/p5-XML-RSS
databases/postgresql90-server

Portmaster will query you for all options for these ports at the beginning of the build process. I did not deviate from the defaults much, but for completeness, here's all the options files:

TODO (This is huge, I have a file, but no perms to upload it)

Install perl modules outside of ports

I downloaded the following from the CPAN site:

• Business::US::USPS::WebTools 1.11
• Chart 2.4.2
• Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::TLS 0.09
• HTML::Defang 1.04
• Net-SMTP-TLS-ButMaintained 0.13

Unpack each, then cd to the directory and run "perl Makefile.pl". Look for any errors - if any dependencies are unsatisfied, that should be noted at the end of the output. Once all dependencies are satisfied, run "make" and "make install". Note that this simple install method will register these modules with the port system using bsdpan black magic (if you understand bsdpan, or have a good link to same, PLEASE ADD IT):

bsdpan-Business-US-USPS-WebTools-1.11
bsdpan-Chart-2.4.2
bsdpan-Email-Sender-Transport-SMTP-TLS-0.09
bsdpan-FS-%%%VERSION%%%  (one of these kids is doing his own thing, one of these kids is not like the others...)
bsdpan-HTML-Defang-1.04
bsdpan-Net-SMTP-TLS-ButMaintained-0.13