Freeside:2.1:Documentation:Installation:FreeBSD

Summary

FreeBSD 8.1 install of Freeside 2.1.1 + RT using ports (ports tree date 1/3/2011) where possible.

Please note this quick guide is written for someone already familiar with installing and maintaining a FreeBSD system. This is NOT a bare metal install guide. This guide leaves many apache modules that you may not need activated - feel free to pare things down once you have a working install.

Install a ton of ports

I use portmaster for most ports tasks. It's in ports-mgmt/portmaster.

Here's the list, as output by "portmaster --list-origins". If you save this list to a file, something like "portmaster `cat /tmp/fs-port-list` should install all of these:

devel/libtool
lang/python26
archivers/unzip
devel/automake
devel/gmake
misc/help2man
www/p5-Apache-DBI-mp2
www/p5-Apache-Session
security/p5-Authen-Passphrase
finance/p5-Business-CreditCard
textproc/p5-CSS-Squish
devel/p5-Calendar-Simple
graphics/p5-Color-Scheme
databases/p5-DBD-Pg
databases/p5-DBIx-SearchBuilder
deskutils/p5-Data-ICal
devel/p5-DateTime-Format-Natural
devel/p5-DateTime-Format-Strptime
devel/p5-DateTime-Set
security/p5-Digest-HMAC
mail/p5-Email-Sender
misc/p5-File-CounterFile
devel/p5-File-ShareDir
net/p5-Frontier-RPC
graphics/p5-GD-Graph
textproc/p5-HTML-Format
textproc/p5-HTML-RewriteAttributes
www/p5-HTML-Scrubber
www/p5-HTML-Widgets-SelectLayers
www/p5-HTTP-Server-Simple-Mason
devel/p5-Hash-AsObject
security/p5-IO-Socket-SSL
devel/p5-IPC-Run
devel/p5-IPC-Run-SafeHandles
converters/p5-JSON
textproc/p5-Lingua-EN-Inflect
textproc/p5-Lingua-EN-NameParse
misc/p5-Locale-Codes
devel/p5-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy
devel/p5-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon
misc/p5-Locale-SubCountry
devel/p5-Log-Dispatch
mail/p5-MIME-Tools
mail/p5-MIME-Types
devel/p5-Module-Versions-Report
dns/p5-Net-Domain-TLD
net/p5-Net-Ping
net/p5-Net-Ping-External
mail/p5-Net-SMTP-SSL
net/p5-Net-SSH
net/p5-Net-Server
net/p5-Net-Whois-Raw
net-mgmt/p5-NetAddr-IP
textproc/p5-Number-Format
devel/p5-POE
textproc/p5-Regexp-Common
textproc/p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
devel/p5-String-Approx
textproc/p5-String-ShellQuote
devel/p5-Term-ReadKey
devel/p5-Test-Deep
devel/p5-Test-Exception
devel/p5-Test-Inline
devel/p5-Test-LongString
devel/p5-Test-Manifest
devel/p5-Test-Script
devel/p5-Test-Warn
textproc/p5-Text-CSV_XS
textproc/p5-Text-Quoted
textproc/p5-Text-Template
textproc/p5-Text-WikiFormat
textproc/p5-Text-Wrapper
devel/p5-Tie-IxHash
devel/p5-Time-Duration
devel/p5-Time-modules
devel/p5-Tree-Simple
devel/p5-UNIVERSAL-require
textproc/p5-XML-RSS
databases/postgresql90-server

Portmaster will query you for all options for these ports at the beginning of the build process. I did not deviate from the defaults much, but for completeness, here's all the options files:

TODO (This is huge, I have a file, but no perms to upload it)

Install perl modules outside of ports

I downloaded the following from the CPAN site:

Business-US-USPS-WebTools-1.11.tar.gz
Chart-2.4.2.tar.gz
Email-Sender-Transport-SMTP-TLS-0.09.tar.gz
HTML-Defang-1.04.tar.gz
Net-SMTP-TLS-ButMaintained-0.13.tar.gz

Unpack each, then cd to the directory and run "perl Makefile.pl". Look for any errors - if any dependancies are unsatisfied, that should be noted at the end of the output. Once all dependencies are satisfied, run "make" and "make install".