[Kroupware] Installing for the first time

[Andreas Gungl]

Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 00:17 schrieb Jon Reynolds:
> I am installing kroupware for testing purposes to see if I can convince
> the company I work for to NOT use exchange. I have so far gotten to the
> point of install where I have the /kolab directory off of my root
> partition. I have also downloaded a ton of files and am wondering if my
> thinking is correct on my next step.

Please read the QIM carefully.

> What I believe I need to do now is become the user kolab and cd into the
> /kolab directory and using the rpm app inside /kolab build every single
> one of these applications, is that correct?

Yes. But make sure to *install* the RPMs as root.

> Does it matter where I build
> them from or does it only matter that I use the rpm app provided by the
> bootstrap install?

The directory is not relevant. And use /kolab/bin/rpm (otherwise you'll get 
potential conflicts with your already existing RPM system).

>I am using RH7.3 because I was not sure if 9 would be
> supported.

RH9 should work, too.

> Also, as I was going through the documentation and noticed how the
> bootstrapping process worked, I was wondering if I could do a minimal
> install of RH and then install Kroupware without having a dependency
> issue for missing packages. So, once I install Kroupware and it builds
> its own root directory /kolab, will this directory contain all the
> necessary dependencies that Kroupware will require.

You can.

Regards,
Andreas