Installation notes / questions

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:51:12AM -0700, Matt M. wrote:
> 1.)
> 
> Among the long list of RPM's it says to compile are 'libxml', and 
> 'libxslt'. Neither of these are included in the sources I downloaded 
> from http://www.erfrakon.de/projects/kolab/download/ . Are these 
> packages needed? I noticed that they are available on the openpkg 
> download server.

This was added in QIM revision 1.28. The QIMs linked from
http://kroupware.org/howto-kolab.html (1.15.2.x) don't have this.

> 2.)
> 
> Building Apache failed with the following error:
> 
> 	gdbm::with_ndbm = yes is needed by apache-1.3.27-20030611
> 
> This was easy enough to fix. Just re-build gdbm with
> 
> 	--define 'with_ndbm yes'
> 
> The QIM should be updated with this change.

This is in the QIM. Which revision do you have? (See the third line)

> 3.)
> 
> This isn't a big deal, but the order of the list of packages given in 
> the QIM lead me to believe that that was the proper order to install the 
> in. It wasn't, because many of the packages depend on packages further 
> down the list. I realize that was not the purpose of that list, but it 
> would be an easy task to make it that way.

I noticed this, too, in an early revision of the QIM. I don't know
if the last version is corrected here.

Newer versions of the kolab server use a script (obmtool) for
installing the components, so this problem is solved there.

Thomas

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