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If these two errors can be fixed then I'm with you - if not then I'll need to carry on with SL



Hi Guys,

I've been bashing away for days at this and could possibly use LS if these two errors are fixable - and hopefully there aren't any other serious errors.  This is on a Debian squeeze server which was set up from scratch - all installation notes are at the end of this email.

1. Error 1 - Printing to a PDF

When I print to PDF I get

Error!

Can't locate Template/Latex.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Template/LaTeX.pm line 58.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Template/LaTeX.pm line 58.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 113) line 3.


I've tried

# cpan Template::Latex
and
# cpan Template::Plugin::Latex

but apart from producing tons of text they look like they failed.  The PDF would still not work - and if I ran the commands again they seemed to start from scratch.

I've also installed

# apt-get install liblatex-driver-perl texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc

But still get the same error.

2. Error 2 - Trying to send an email

Error!

open |/usr/bin/sendmail -t: No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Mailer.pm line 220.


I've installed postfix which is generally a sendmail dropin replacement - but would like to have a clean way of sorting this out.

Unless I can get these errors resolved quickly then we're going to have to go back to SL.

Here's my notes so for for everything I've done on the Debian squeeze server.



---++ Set up of ledgersmb

---+++ Get ledgersmb files

As this was to be installed as a website outside of the packaging system a new user account called ledgersmb was created to hold the website files.

<verbatim>
$ cd ~
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ledger-smb/ledgersmb/1.3.23/ledgersmb-1.3.23.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf ledgersmb-1.3.23.tar.gz
$ mv ledgersmb-1.3.23 web
</verbatim>

So, the files of ledgersmb are now in /home/ledgersmb/web

---+++ Install base packages

<verbatim>
# apt-get install apache2
# apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib
</verbatim>

NB - This is different from the LedgerSMB INSTALL file which says to install postgresql-server.

---+++ Set up smbledger database admin user

<verbatim>
# su - postgres
..hidden..:~$ createuser -s -P lsadmin
Enter password for new role:
Enter it again:
..hidden..:~$</verbatim>
</verbatim>

The default set up of pg_hba.conf on Postgresql on Debian means that accounts are already set to authenticate via md5.

---+++ Install extra packages required by LedgerSMB

Here we will install all perl packages that we can from Debian archive so that we don't need to get many from cpan.

=apt-get install libdatetime-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-pg-perl libcgi-simple-perl libtemplate-perl libconfig-std-perl libmime-lite-perl liberror-perl liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl libtest-exception-perl libtest-trap-perl liblog-log4perl-perl libmath-bigint-gmp-perl libfile-mimeinfo-perl=

We also need extra packages to be able to create PDF files.

=apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended=

NB - This will install quite a few packages.

Also installed the following packages to see if we could get printing to PDF working.

=# apt-get install liblatex-driver-perl texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc=


This package may also be needed so it is good to install it now.

=apt-get install libxml-twig-perl=

Now we need to use the built-in perl package checker and downloader.

Before running the command it is necessary to install the following package to allow the 'perl Makefile.PL' command to work:

=apt-get install libmodule-install-perl=

We will also need to add the 'make' utility.

=apt-get install make=

Then - we will run LedgerSMB's own script to check all necessary perl libriaries are available.  As root cd into the base directory (/home/ledgersmb/web) and then run:

=perl Makefile.PL=

Which gives output and at the end of the output we have:
<verbatim>
...
==> Auto-install the 1 mandatory module(s) from CPAN? [y]
[Size detection for images for embedding in LaTeX templates]
- Image::Size               ...missing.
==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y
[POS module credit card processing support]
- Net::TCLink               ...missing.
==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y
[Experimental scripting engine]
- Parse::RecDescent         ...missing.
==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n]
[Developer tool dependencies]
- Getopt::Long              ...loaded. (2.38)
- FileHandle                ...loaded. (2.02)
- Locale::Country           ...loaded. (2.07)
- Locale::Language          ...loaded. (2.07)
[PDF and Postscript output]
- Template::Plugin::Latex   ...missing. (would need 1)
==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y
[OpenOffice.org output]
- XML::Twig                 ...loaded. (3.34)
- OpenOffice::OODoc         ...missing.
==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [n] y
*** Dependencies will be installed the next time you type 'make'.
*** Module::AutoInstall configuration finished.
include inc/Module/Install/WriteAll.pm
include inc/Module/Install/Win32.pm
include inc/Module/Install/Can.pm
include inc/Module/Install/Fetch.pm
Warning: prerequisite IO::Scalar 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Image::Size 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Net::TCLink 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite OpenOffice::OODoc 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Template::Plugin::Latex 1 not found.
Writing Makefile for LedgerSMB
Writing META.yml
..hidden..:/home/ledgersmb/web#</verbatim>

After this was run we ran:

=# make install=

Now - this is not in the INSTALL file - and we're guessing a bit here - but we're going to copy ledgersmb.conf.default to ledgersmb.conf and then edit the contrib_dir configuration to point to /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib as this is where it looks like the contrib files are located.

---+++ Setting up Apache

Now we need to set up the Apache configuration.  We have used a standard Apache2 installation and if Apache ITK is used then the instructions may need to be different.

=cp ledgersmb-httpd.conf.template /etc/apache2/conf.d/ledgersmb-httpd.conf=

Then edit this file and change WORKING_DIR to the base directory of the ledgersmb files.

Also, if it is needed to access LS from other machines the lines about allowing only from localhost/127.0.0.1 and changed to 'Allow from All'.

<verbatim>
  # 17/10/2012 - kbailey                                                                                                                              
  # Allow from 127.0.0.1                                                                                                                              
  # Allow from localhost                                                                                                                              
  Allow from All
</verbatim>

Need to enable the mod_rewrite module for Apache:

<verbatim>
# a2enmod rewrite
# apache2ctl restart
</verbatim>

---+++ Set up databases

It should be possible to access:

http://servername/ledgersmb/setup.pl

And login with the Postgresql user created previously and create new databases etc.

---+++ Problems

When trying to create a PDF doc the error comes up as:

---++++ Error 1 - Printing to a PDF

When I print to PDF I get

Error!

Can't locate Template/Latex.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Template/LaTeX.pm line 58.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Template/LaTeX.pm line 58.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 113) line 3.


---++++ Error 2 - Trying to send an email

Error!

open |/usr/bin/sendmail -t: No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/LedgerSMB/Mailer.pm line 220.