[OGo-Users] Crappy docs; yum install not possible

[Dale Bewley]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 11:47 -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> mkdir /tmp/OGo
> cd /tmp/OGo
> rug install -y apache2-devel postgresql-server postgresql-devel \
>                pilot-link-devel libxml2-devel ncftp libobjc \
>                openldap2-devel compat-openssl097g
> ncftpget -p {your e-mail address} \
>   "ftp://ftp.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/suse10-0/trunk/*latest*"
> rm libfoundation10*
> ln -s /usr/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0 /usr/lib/liblber-2.2.so.7
> ln -s /usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0 /usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7
> /sbin/ldconfig
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm  #{1)
> 
> (1)Enter "no<enter>" when prompted if the database context should be
> able to create additional roles.
> 
> - adjust the URL or package names for whatever distro and you should be
> all set; you probably have to replace rug with whatever your distro uses
> to do such things [yum].
> 
> This has proved easy and reliable for me.


Is there anyone associated with the project who has the access to run
createrepo? I'm still putting off evaluating OGo because of even such a
mild barrier to entry. I have enough other things on my plate to keep me
busy without sorting out deps by hand. I'll soon have to bite the
bullet, but it doesn't give me a long term warm and fuzzy feeling about
the project.

I'd almost volunteer to mirror and create a yum repo, but like I said I
haven't fully evaluated OGo and am not yet sure I would be interested
for the long term.

To pile on, I'd like to say I really don't like the Plone with documents
buried under individual users where they are hard to find. Or docs
buried in a long PDF product presentation. Maybe that's just me. 

I wish the main OGo site were a Wiki so we could update the incomplete
install docs.

Some more info on this topic:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.user/12886/focus=12886
http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/redhat/index.html
http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/fedora/index.html
http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/

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Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis
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