[Klug-general] Problems with Ledger SMB

[Mike Rentell]

J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:01:04AM +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Well what I downloaded from the site was a .deb file. When I clicked on  
>> it in Gnome file manager it popped up another file manager layer listing  
>> three files: control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz and debian-binary. The  
>> 'extract' icon on the top line was available so I clicked that. That  
>> extracted those three files and put them into my /home/mick/Downloads  
>> directory but it didn't unpack them, just put them into that directory  
>> as three separate files. So now I have two tar.gz files and a very short  
>> file called debian-binary - it is only 4 bytes long and if you examine  
>> it with an editor it just says ' 2.0 '.  So I then clicked on the tar.gz  
>> files and extracted them with the same extractor and that put three  
>> directories into /home/mick/Downloads: etc, usr, var (with lots of other  
>> things in them), and three files called confiles, control, md5sums, plus  
>> two files called prerm and postinst.
> 
> And this is why GUI's are bad. I repeat, down load the file, and run
> dpkg -i <deb file> (replace <deb file> with the name of the .deb). It
> should be all you need to do
> 
>> Yeah, that's what I thought most likely, but the lack of installation  
>> instructions (well I can't find them) is a bit of a let down.
> 
> It is a .deb, the installation isntructions are the same as for any .deb
> file, you use dpkg -i.
> 
>> Thinking about it, perhaps I should have been doing this all as root and  
>> installing them into the / directory. But this being Debian and me being  
>> a refugee from Mandriva I am always stuck by the systems inability to  
>> allow me in with the root password. I've never fully understood the sudo  
>> thing - sudo what? there is no konqueror because it is in Gnome which is  
>> equally foreign to me. I am essentially a keen user with some knowledge  
>> but I was not brought up in unix (actually in mainframe COBOL) so I am  
>> showing my age and disabilities.
> 
> sudo -s, will give you a shell as root, and you just carry on as normal. I
> don't like the whle prepending everything with sudo, so just do sudo -s
> and carry on as normal. 
> 
>> If you have some advice as to how this package should be properly  
>> installed I would be most grateful. Thanks for taking the time so far.
>> If you know where the published installation instructions are, I'd  
>> appreciate a steer because I am quite happy to plough through  
>> documentation if I can find it.
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> I have actually said this a number of times, on the command line, run
> dpkg -i <deb file> and it should just work. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Julia
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Progress! I have carefully read the installation instructions for 
LedgerSMB and it says that they are written for Debian 4.0. So I 
reinstated that on my VBox. Then I followed the instructions most 
diligently and all seemed to progress very well. However, I haven't the 
least clue what I am doing.

On page 8 of the (printed out) instructions it says:

Ledger-SMB comes with a little script to automatically configure Apache. 
Let's run it now:

cd /usr/local/ledgersmb/
sh configure_apache.sh

You will be asked two questions:

-------------------------------------------------------------
Which user does your web server run as

Where do we copy the ledgersmb-httpd.conf file to
-------------------------------------------------------------

Restart Apache afterwards:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

etc..etc

The instructions are very precise up to this point so I am mightily 
confused by these two questions. The preferred or suggested responses 
are not given.

Any ideas?  Still baffled.. but progressing.

Ta.

MikeR