Introduction

This page contains some additional installation hints for installing on a Mandriva based system.

For installing the packages, simply open a console window with administration rights (a so called "root console") and paste the lines below into the console.

urpmi is the command-line version of the software installation center (also known as rpmdrake). Pasting the lines into a window is much easier than selecting the packages via the GUI :-) plus for the server you need additional Python packages which are not available via the software installation center. For more information please visit http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi

For the Client

• Mandriva Linux 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1:

urpmi python-egenix-mx-base pygtk2.0 librsvg python-pytz

N.B.: Python is build with SSL support, thus an extra pyOpenSSL package is not required.

• Recommended: OpenOffice, KOffice or another OpenDocument viewer for displaying reports.
• Recommended: xpdf, kpdf, epdfview or another PDF viewer if you convert reports into PDF.

For the Server

• Mandriva Linux 2009.0, 2009.1:

urpmi python-psycopg2 python-egenix-mx-base python-lxml python-genshi python-yaml
# needed for installing additional modules from PyPI
urpmi python-setuptools
easy_install -U relatorio pycha # may take a while (NB: pycha, not PyChart)

# optional dependencies
urpmi python-dot python-pytz python-beautifulsoup python-vobject
urpmi openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-pyuno
easy_install -U pywebdav openoffice-python vatnumber

• Mandriva Linux 2008.1:

urpmi python-psycopg2 python-egenix-mx-base python-lxml python-pytz
# needed for installing additional modules from PyPI
urpmi python-setuptools
# Mandrivas Genshi and lxml are to old
urpmi libxslt-devel
easy_install -U Genshi lxml relatorio # may take a while

# optional dependencies (list based on Tytron 1.0)
urpmi openoffice.org-writer
easy_install pywebdav openoffice-python pydot

Database installation

• Mandriva Linux 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1

urpmi postgresql8.3-server  # postgresql8.2-server is okay, too

Please refer to the appropriate documentation for more information about how to set up PostgreSQL once you installed the package.