Freeside:1.7:Documentation:InstallingUsingRPM
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Introduction
Warning!
The RPM installation of Freeside is experimental! The instructions below may be incomplete or incorrect and are subject to change. You should only attempt to use the RPM installation if you are prepared to work around omissions and inaccuracies, and can recover data in the event of a loss.
Information
RPM is a build-once, install-many package manager for system management. Originally for RedHat, it is now used on a wide range of Linux distros including Fedora, SUSE, Mandriva, etc. Well-structured RPMs include dependency information that RPM can use to warn you that additional components are required. Tools such as yum and apt-get (RPM version) can use this dependency information to download additional components from a repository and include them in the installation.
Installing the RPM version of Freeside may not be a good idea if you plan to do development on Freeside as the RPMs may not include all the files supplied in the tarball.
The RPM version of Freeside does not include Request Tracker at this time.
Installation
Installation can be done with a tool such as YUM or APT (or up2date on RHEL), preferably, or as a last resort, with RPM directly.
Installing using yum
Setup YUM
Make sure the yum priorities plugin is installed by running yum install yum-plugin-priorities.
