[Gnumed-devel] Packaging information

[Jim Busser]

Would it be a good idea, now that the wiki is back and likely stable,  
to set up a wiki reference page concerning Packaging?

I was thinking (after looking at the SQL-ledger packaging page below)  
that we could have a packaging page with the introductory as well as  
general (OS independent) information, and we could below that have a  
link for a separate wiki page for each package (or we could start out  
with the OS and distro-specific info on the same page, just further  
down, with anchors.




http://www.sql-ledger.com/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=misc/ 
packaging.html&title=Packaging

Packaging SQL-Ledger

 The information contained in this document describes where  to install  
the various components for SQL-Ledger for a particular  distribution.  
Whatever O/S you use, all the required variables  may be specified in a  
configuration file (sql-ledger.conf). If the  configuration file itself  
should be in some other location two files  (login.pl and am.pl) need a  
minor change.  All the other scripts in the root directory are  
symlinks,  either soft- or hard-linked, to am.pl.  When running under a  
SuExec environment the symlinks must be  hardlinks.

 SQL-Ledger requires perl 5+, DBI, DBD-Pg, DBD-DB2 or DBD-Oracle,   
PostgreSQL 7.1+, DB2 8.1 or Oracle 8+.  You will also need a web server  
such as Apache, thttpd, ...  LaTeX is optional and required only for  
creating forms in postscript  and PDF formats.

Installation paths are for the purpose of showing a configuration.   
Follow the particular filesystem standard for your O/S. SQL-Ledger does  
 not depend on any absolute location and everything is relative to the   
SQL-Ledger root directory.

 General steps.
        •        Install the software somewhere
     i.e /usr/local/sql-ledger

etc