Installing 1.3 on Debian

[Nigel Titley <..hidden..>]

I mentioned this on IRC yesterday but I'll email it as a more permanent 
record

I decided to try installing 1.3.25 from scratch on a virgin debian 
squeeze installation yesterday, using the Ubuntu installation notes as a 
guide.

Things largely went smoothly. Many of the required CPAN modules are 
available as part of the standard Debian distribution. I think the only 
one that I had to install via CPAN was the Perl::Latex module.

I had three issues:

1. The documented problem with Perl::Latex (which I haven't yet fixed, 
but have no issues with sorting out)
2. A rather difficult to track down problem which gave an error message 
about a missing db password in the log when I ran setup.pl. This turned 
out to be caused by the instruction in the Ubuntu guide for localising 
the apache configuration file. If followed to the letter this results in 
a line

alias /ledgersmb /usr/local/ledgersmb/

in the config file which results in the mod_rewrite authentication 
expression not matching and so no authentication being passed through (I 
think). Editing the line to

alias /ledgersmb /usr/local/ledgersmb

fixed that problem

3. A locale issue, which is obviously known about as I saw comments in 
the Ledgersmb.pm on it which prevented new company databases being 
created. My locale is en_GB and this prevents a database being set up 
with UTF8 encoding. The fix for this is to shut down postgres, delete 
the database cluster and re-run initdb with the locale set to en_GB.UTF-8

After this, everything seemed to go ok and I'm now testing again

Nigel