[freeside] First Installation

[Randall Lucas]

Folks,

Per the FAQ and previous messages, you WILL have weird problems with Red Hat
8/9, specifically due to their inclusion of mod_perl 1.99 / Apache 2.

The LANG issue below is because RH9 defaults to en_US.utf8, which fubars all
kinds of things from "man" to some makes in the CPAN mods.  Your Perl in
general may be fubar'ed unless you manage to export LANG="C" (I suppose en_US
would work as well, the main trouble being the UTF8).  Recall that Perl 5.8,
shipped with RH9, uses utf8 for its stringiness which can slow things up.

If you downgrade to the RH 7.3 RPMs to install Apache 1.3, see
blogs.law.harvard.edu/rlucas for my notes on that.  Note as well that the Perl
in the mod_perl used for that is, I believe, 5.6.1.

Randall

Daniel Henry wrote:

> The freeside New Install section is as striaght forward as it gets ... ..
> if you read EVERYTHING ...step by step ...  and have all of the requirments
> ...  it will work.  I have 2 boxes running redhat 9 ... freeside works fine
> on both ... the  perl DIST thats comes with RH 9 will work fine ...
>
> Only thing I had trouble with are that  some of the perl modules wont
> install with the CPAN shell ...  its a can be worked aaround by setting the
> LANG environment variable ...  example ...
>
> env LANG=en_US perl  -MCPAN -e shell
>
> the default  is LANG=en_US.UTF-8  which cause some issues with some of the
> make tests.
>
> you MUST use apache 1.3  and  if using mysql ....  you gotta have 4.1 ....
> the DIST with RH 9 is 3.23.54 .. which WILL NOT support subqueries
>
> Daniel Henry
>
> eNet
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gator" <gator at acs.bz>
> To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:23 PM
> Subject: [freeside] First Installation
>
> > I'm installing Freeside for the first time.  Actually I'm not counting
> > the real first time since I couldn't get everything to compile and
> > decided to try again.  I am loading this on a fresh install of Redhat
> > 9.0 which automatically installs the RPM version of Perl 5.8.0.
> >
> > Is the standard RPM release of Perl OK especially considering the
> > installation notes warning about "experimental features like threads"
> > which I believe are enabled in the RPM?
> >
> > Are there any better installation guides besides the cryptic one in the
> > Freeside manual?
> >
> > Thanks - Jack
> >
> >
> >
> >