OpenGroupware.org has excellent
Debian support!
OGo provides nightly builds
based on the development trunk and Debian developer Sebastian Ley is working on official Debian packages for inclusion
in the distribution.
The latter are already committed to
Debian experimental and perform a lot of
configuration which needs to be done manually on other distributions.
Note:
Due to preparations for SOPE 4.4 / OGo 1.0 the packages can be outdated and
install instructions might be incorrect. Installation instructions will be
updated if OGo 1.0 packages are available and released.
Thanks for your patience.
Debian guru Sebastian Ley was so kind to provide great experimental packages for OGo. Unlike the Woody packages, Sebastian's already do a lot of
automatic configuration.
The packages currently can be found in the
debian
directory on
download.opengroupware.org.
Once OGo 1.0 is released these packages willalso be uploaded to the Debian archive.
To use these packages add the corresponding apt source to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
After an apt-get update use apt-get install opengroupware.org to
install the packages. Please ensure that all Recommended packages are installed as well
if you want a standard installation. After installation you need to create configuration
and database setup for an OGo instance. This can be done with the ogo-create-instance
script, which asks some question and creates all necessary files and configuration. It
even does database setup if desired.
It is no problem to reuse existing OGo data, but you have to bear in mind that support
for filesystem based projects won't be installed automatically anymore. If you used
filesystem based projects before, you need to install the package libopengroupware-fs-project5.1 manually.
If you find bugs in the packages don't hesistate to file a bugreport in our bugtracker. Questions and suggestions can
be discussed on our mailing lists.
Note:
The
Noodle project
provides an excellent install howto for OpenGroupware.org 1.0a (alpha)
packages.
For Woody you need to install the nightly builds as provided by the OGo
project. Unless Sarge 3.1 is released before OGo 1.0, OGo 1.0 will provide
stable Woody backports.
Update:
We are not sure yet whether we are going to support OGo Woody packages.
Please
let us know
whether and why Woody 1.0 packages are important for you!
- Installing Woody Packages
- Database
- Apache Module (mod_ngobjweb)
- Create Init Scripts
Some special instructions to build SOPE 4.4 / OGo 1.0alpha packages on
Debian can be found
here.
The Knoppix Live-CD is also based on Debian and has its own
Live-CD section on the OGo website.
Its certainly the fastest way to get a working demo installation of
OpenGroupware.org.
Alfred Madl has provided
instructions
for setting up OpenGroupware.org on a
Xebian 1.0.0 driven Xbox! Roxx! ;-)
Sarge? Sid? Woody? Testing? Unstable?
Debian distribution versioning is a bit, well, difficult to follow ;-) So
a short intro on that, as explained by
Sebastian.
