[Kroupware] Installing for the first time

[Jon Reynolds]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:49, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> 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

Brilliant!! :)

Thanks Andreas.

Jon