[Gnumed-devel] Gnumed with Debian sid

[Robert William Hutton]

I've just got gnumed up and running with Debian sid.

Thanks are due partially to the User Docs, and partially to Michael 
Bonert's HOWTO for Mandrake 9.1.

The user docs have a section specifically for Debain, but they involved 
using .tar.gz's for some of the components.  I intentially set out to 
only use .debs from the main archive.

I installed the following packages:

python-egenix-mx-base-dev
libwxgtk2.3-python
libwxgtk2.3
postgresql
postgresql-client
python-pgsql
python2.2-dev
python2.2-egenix-mxdatetime
python2.2-egenix-mxtools
python2.2

and then frigged around for ages trying to bootstrap.  I was confused 
wrt what to put for the passwords for postgres and gm-dbowner during the 
bootstrap.  I'm still not sure, but after going through a few times, and 
doing 'DROP USER "gm-dbowner"' a few times, as well as some cvs updates, 
I got everything running.  I ran the bootsrapping process as the user 
postgres (su ; su postgres), and used blank passwords for both postgres 
and gm-dbowner.

Oh yes, and I had to make the changes to /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf 
that were outlined in the Mandrake HOWTO.

Should I write up a HOWTO for Debian similar to the Michael's Mandrake one?

Oh, yes.  A suggestion:  Write up a README file and put it in the root 
of the Gnumed CVS.  It should have the absolute basic information for 
people who are complete n00bs to the project.  Stuff like:

- What GnuMed is for.
- Where the user docs are.
- Where the developer docs are.
- The urls of the project.
- Licensing info and location of the GPL.txt file in CVS.
- Stuff I've forgotten.

It took me ages just scrabbling around trying to find the most basic 
information, and I think this'd help.

I volunteer to write one up if people thing it's a good idea.

Cheers,

Rob.

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