DebianLennySourceInstallGuide

Unofficial Installation Guide

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Debian Lenny Source Install Guide

This guide shows you how to install RT 3.8.x from source using the Debian packages instead of the CPAN modules.

Install the needed Debian packages:

aptitude install \
       gcc \
       make \
       libc6-dev \
       libapache-dbi-perl \
       libapache-session-perl  \
       libcache-simple-timedexpiry-perl \
       libcalendar-simple-perl \
       libcgi-fast-perl \
       libclass-returnvalue-perl \
       libcss-squish-perl \
       libdata-ical-perl \
       libdbix-searchbuilder-perl \
       libemail-address-perl \
       libfcgi-perl \
       libfile-sharedir-perl \
       libfile-spec-perl \
       libfile-temp-perl \
       libgnupg-interface-perl \
       libgraphviz-perl \
       libhook-lexwrap-perl \
       libhtml-format-perl \
       libhtml-mason-perl  \
       libhtml-scrubber-perl  \
       libhtml-tree-perl \
       libhttp-server-simple-perl \
       liblocale-maketext-fuzzy-perl \
       liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl \
       liblog-dispatch-perl  \
       libmime-tools-perl \
       libmime-types-perl \
       libmodule-versions-report-perl \
       libnet-server-perl \
       libperlio-eol-perl \
       libregexp-common-perl \
       libterm-readkey-perl  \
       libtext-quoted-perl \
       libtext-template-perl \
       libtext-vfile-asdata-perl \
       libtext-wikiformat-perl  \
       libtext-wrapper-perl \
       libtime-modules-perl \
       libtree-simple-perl  \
       libuniversal-require-perl \
       libwww-perl \
       libxml-rss-perl \
       libgd-graph-perl \
       libcgi-pm-perl

Install CPAN modules where Debian packages currently not exist (they will be in squeeze):

cpan[1]> install HTML::RewriteAttributes HTTP::Server::Simple::Mason IPC::Run::SafeHandles

Download and install RT:

wget http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-3.8.x.tar.gz
tar xvzf rt-3.8.x.tar.gz
cd rt-3.8.x
./configure \
       --enable-graphviz \
       --enable-gd \
       --disable-gpg \
       --with-web-handler=modperl2 \
       --with-db-rt-user=rt_user \
       --with-db-rt-pass=rt_pass
make testdeps
make install