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Installation instructions

System requirements

A web server with PHP version 5.1 or better installed. The current release has been tested against:

  • Apache 2.0
  • Firefox 3
  • Php 5.2.6 or greater
  • Mysql 5
  • and since version 0.7-beta3, to get the reports working: php/java bridge

 

Steps for installing Blue ERP as a stand alone application

  1. Download the package blueerp-0.7-beta3.tar.bz2 from the internet
  2. Create a database and a suitable user
  3. untar the distribution into the proper directory
  4. with your web browser, go to the url and install egroupware
  5. BlueErp will easier to use with the BlueErp template. To select the BlueErp template, go to Preferences -> Common Prefernces. In Interface / Template selection, choose BlueErp. Then save
  6. At this stage, you need to go to Admin -> User accounts. Give yourself access to all applications
  7. To initialise the database, go to Admin -> Erp Admin -> Initial Setup. Select the en-au chart, and click on install. The default chart of accounts is installed
  8. Now, setup the default template for Invoices, Quotes etc. Go to Admin -> ERP Admin -> Official Templates. Click on 'Add'
  9. Name your template AR.default. For 'application', select "Orders and invoices'. Copy and paste the content from the file blue_admin/setup/charts/order.html, and save the template.
  10. You are done!

 

Steps for installing Blue ERP as a set of Egroupware modules

 

  1. BlueErp is comptapible with version 1.4 of egroupware. Support for version 1.6 is currently in progress. For more details please see the roadmap
  2. Download the package blueerp-egw-0.7-beta3.tar.bz2 from the internet and untar it in your egroupware installation directory.
    Note: the subdirectories of the blueerp-egw-0.7-beta3 untarred archive need to be at the same level as the egroupware installation. In your egroupware installation directory, use the following command to untar the BlueErp package:
    $ tar jxf blueerp-egw-0.7-beta3.tar.bz2 --strip-component=1
  3. Refer to the instruction above to complete your installation of BlueErp
  4. You are done!

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