InstallationGuides
Unofficial Installation Guide
This is an unofficial installation guide. It may be outdated or apply only to very specific configurations and versions. The official and maintained installation steps for RT are in the README and UPGRADING documents included in the official .tar.gz packages.
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Introduction
The best/easiest distribution for RT
There is no the best or the easiest. People run RT on Arch Linux, Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, RH7/8/9, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Solaris, SuSE, Gentoo, OpenBSD.
Just look at the list of guides below. Pick a distro you're familiar with, check if it has packages for the latest stable RT or install from source.
Generic Installation Guides
- ManualRequirements - software and knowledge you need to install RT.
- ManualInstallation - general overview of installation process and first time configuring.
- DevelopmentInstallation - HOWTO setup RT to run from a development directory
Platform-Specific Installation Guides
- Arch Linux
- CentOS:
- CentOS5InstallPlusSome (CentOS 5.4 + Active Directory 2003 + Exchange 2007 + Postfix + RT 3.8.7)
- CentOS 5.x and 6.x (RT 4.0.5) (CentOS 5.x / 6.x + RT 4.0.5)
- CentOS 6.2 (RT 4.0.5) (An unofficial installation guide)
- CentOS 6.2 (RT 4.0.5) (A slightly different unofficial installation guide compared to the one above)
- CentOS 6.4 (RT 4.0.17) (CentOS-6.4 - x86_64 Minimal Instalation + RT 4.0.17)
- Cygwin
- Debian GNU/Linux:
- DebianSqueezeInstallGuide (RT 4, via apt)
- DebianLennyInstallGuide (RT 3.81, mysql 5, postifx)
- DebianLennySourceInstallGuide
- DebianEtchSourceInstallGuide
- DebianSargeeInstallGuide
- Fedora:
- FedoraCore1InstallGuide
- FedoraCore2InstallGuide
- FedoraCore4InstallGuide
- Fedore Core 5 and greater have packages, see below
- MacOSX:
- OpenBSD:
- openSUSE
- RedHat EL:
- Slackware
- Solaris
- SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE):
- Ubuntu
Packaged Installs
- Rhel5InstallGuide
- CentOS5InstallGuide
- RHELorCentOSusingEPEL
- DebianInstallGuide
- Portuguese translation: GuiaInstalacaoDebian
- Fedora:
- FreeBSDInstallGuide
- GentooInstallGuide
- MandrivaInstallGuide
- RPMInstall
- (RHEL/CentOS/WBEL, updated for v3.4.5. Includes how to get mod_perl2 running)
- SolarisBlastwaveInstallGuide
- SuSE:
- Ubuntu:
- UbuntuInstallGuide
- UbuntuInstallGuide2 (Ubuntu 6.06 / RT 3.6 / mysql)
- UbuntuHardyInstallGuide (Ubuntu 8.04 / RT 3.6 / mysql)
- Vmware:
- Virtual Appliances:
- Proxmox_VE_RT_Appliance (RT 3.8.x)
Perl Module Repositories for RHEL/CentOS
Database Specific Notes
- OracleSetup
- RT with OracleText
- RT with PostgreSQLFullText
- RT with PostgreSQLFullTextTrgm
Web Server Specific Notes
Upgrading
- MigrateToNewServer
- UpgradingFrom3011To344OnSolaris9
- Upgrade_RT_3.6.7_to_3.8.8_-_Debian_5.0(lenny)_to_6.0(squeeze)
Other
Deployment guides
Documents which explain why and which way, rather than how.
- ItsFinallyInstalledNowWhat
- The MITProjectNotebook, especially the Documentation page, which includes a 15 page PDF User's Manual.