[OGo-Users] OGo trunk install on debian sid - not possible from packages!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I try so setup OGo trunk from the packages available under
> deb http://download.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/debian sarge trunk
> deb http://download.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/debian sid trunk
> on a debian sid system.
> But til yet I hit so many problems as I'm really disappointed of these
> packages (yes, I know they are nightly built).

The package repository is very rough, and lately seems a bit flaky.  One
of my current projects is getting SOPE & OGo building in the Novell/SuSE
build service.  So far ogo-gnustep-make & libfoundation are building.

> First the packages depends on NO MORE available package (libpq3 which
> isn't in etch, to) and I don't find any guide for installing.
> The install on the OGo site tells something about pre-1.0 version, which
> seems to be ancient.

It is;  unfortunately the OGo website is pretty horrible and really
really out of date.  Best to go straight to the docs plone.  There are
articles on Sarge in the docs plone -
http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/johnsonmlw/debiansargeapache2/view
& http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/mhasselmann/sarge-apache2/

> After grabbing a ancient sarge libpq3 package I could go on.
> Now it stops at libapache2-mod-ngobjweb which depends on
> apache2-common., which isn't available any more, just apache2.2-common
> is available...
> Yes, it's trunk and unstable, but maybe these problems could be solved.
> I try to setup a trunk OGo for the lightning calendat team to test and
> improve calendar functions.

Until the package repository gets fixed up my only advice is to use a
distribution that gets more love;  installing on openSUSE is quite
smooth and painless.