Unofficial Installation Guide

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This is a guide on how to install RT 3.x on a SuSE 9.3 server using Exim as a mail server.

Note: Specifics may differ from system to system. The system by which this was produced is running:

RT 3.4.4
SuSE 9.3
Apache2
Mod_perl 2.0.1 [TBD: check version]
Mysql 4.1.12 [TBD: check version]
Perl 5.8.6 [TBD: check version]
HTML::Mason 1.3101 [TBD: check version]

Firstly, portions of this document was kindly reproduced from the original FedoraCore4Install guide. Thanks to the author for writing such a thorough document.

1. OS Installation

Install SuSE 9.3 and select to install mysql (it's a recent version) and apache. Make sure httpd and mysql services are running:

rcmysqld start
rcapache2 start

You may need to create files in /etc/init.d for this to work or use the chkconfig utility to add them to the appropriate run levels:

chkconfig -a mysql
chkconfig -a apache2

To make sure everything is up up-to-date, it may be prudent to do an update of all binaries using YaST:

yast2

2. Exim Installation

Having correctly setup the server to connect to the Internet, you can now go and fetch the latest Exim binary or use YaST to download and install it.

Follow the installation instructions and set Exim up as per your organization's standard.

To start the Exim service use:

rcexim start

To add Exim to the different run levels, use:

chkconfig -a exim

WHERE IS THE REST OF THIS GUIDE? Yes where? I guess in my head since I have to guess the rest!

3. Install Prerequisites

a. DBIx::SearchBuilder

I had to install gcc with yast before Clone and Want would install as prereqs for this package.

b. Tree::Simple

One big gotcha that I have found is that Tree::Simple will not install properly from CPAN. This is due to Weak References not being allowed. The error is:

Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl at /root/.cpan/build/Tree-Simple-1.15/blib/lib/Tree/Simple.pm line 9 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /root/.cpan/build/Tree-Simple-1.15/blib/lib/Tree/Simple.pm line 9.

The solution for me was to do a force install of Scalar::Util (force install Scalar::Util) and then a force install of Tree::Simple.

c. DBD::mysql

Make sure you have the mysql client and possibly dev. Next install zlib-dev.

d. MySQL

Make sure to install MySQL-Max with Yast2 to get InnoDB support

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