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@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ Before installing, you need:
A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- PostgreSQL (v7 or higher) is recommended.
-
- MySQL does not work at this time.
- The following information is provided for developers who wish to contribute MySQL support: See ticket #300 in the bug-tracking system.
+
- MySQL is NOT supported at this time. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL support, see the MySQL notes.
- MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you really want to use MySQL, you need to use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB, and set it as the default table type using the
--default-table-type=BDB
mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB
in the my.cnf option file.
+
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
Install the Freeside distribution:
@@ -176,17 +176,19 @@ $ freeside-adduser -c -h /usr/local/
$ freeside-adduser -h /usr/local/etc/freeside/htpasswd username
(using other auth types, add each user to your Apache authentication and then run: freeside-adduser username
- As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/fs-setup username to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
+ As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/fs-setup username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to create the database tables, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
$ su freeside
+$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
$ bin/fs-setup username
- As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/populate-msgcat username to populate the message catalog, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
+ As the freeside UNIX user, run bin/populate-msgcat username (in the untar'ed freeside directory) to populate the message catalog, passing the username of a Freeside user you created above:
$ su freeside
+$ cd /path/to/freeside-1.4.0/
$ bin/populate-msgcat username
- freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup.
+ freeside-queued was installed with the Perl modules. Start it now and ensure that is run upon system startup (Do this manually, or, edit the top-level Makefile, replacing INIT_FILE with the appropriate location on your system, and run make install-init.
Now proceed to the initial administration of your installation.