Howto to install ERP5 on Mandrake GNU/Linux

Add some urpmi sources :

First I should warn you that the installation was tested on Mandrake 10.0. All rpm packages are availabe on the web, so you can use urpmi. You may already use it, if so you probably have a source for main. I give you an exemple for main and contrib sources, but it is better for you to go on the site http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/ and select a mirror next to you. As root, you have to use :

   urpmi.addmedia erp5 http://nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/10.0/RPMS/

Contrib contains packages contributed to the Mandrake distibution by third parties.

Installing ERP5 :

If everything is going fine, you can simply run :

    urpmi ERP5

That's it ! Well... you have to configure some few things now.

Configure zope :

If it is the first time that zope is running on your box, you shall create an admin user. It's fairly simple, so run as root :

    zopectl
    zopectl> stop
    zopectl> adduser username password
    zopectl> start

You can access to the zope management interface by opening a browser and then enter the following url :

    http://localhost:9080/manage

Restore an existing database :

May be you want to restore a backup of the zope database. In this case, stop zope like this, then copy your file :

    zopectl
    zopectl> stop
    cp /var/lib/zope/var/Data.fs /var/lib/zope/var/Data.fs.old
    cp [BACKUP_DIRECTORY]/Data.fs /var/lib/zope/var/Data.fs
    zopectl> start

Install a database server :

Some parts of erp5 needs to use a database server, here we are using mysql-max. You can install this server and start it as follow :

    urpmi MySQL-Max
    /etc/init.d/mysql-max start

Everything should be installed now !

Installing the ERP5 Site inside your zope:

You should go inside the zope management interface by entering the following url inside a browser :

    http://localhost:9080/manage

Then you have to select ERP5 Site in the Add list, let say that you give the name erp5 to your site, you can after access to it with this url :

    http://localhost:9080/erp5