Installation instructions
System requirements
A web server with PHP version 5.0 or better installed. The current release has been tested against:
- Apache 2.0
- Firefox 2.0
- Php 5.1.6 or greater
- Mysql 5
Steps for installing Blue ERP as a stand alone application
- Download the package blueerp-0.6-RC2.tar.bz2 from the internet
- Create a database (mysql or postgresql) and a suitable user
- untar the distribution into the proper directory
- with your web browser, go to the url and install egroupware
- login into egroupware and go to ck-admin. If you see an error message saying that you don't have access to ck-admin, you will need to get into the egroupware administration and grant the appropriate rights to your user
- In the left menu, select Admin/Setup and follow the prompts. This will install all the tables required for blue erp to work. At the moment the only environment which work is to instakk a production environment and select the australian chart of accounts (option 4), the other ones may not be com patible with this release of Blue ERP.
- In order to use the "official invoice" feature, you will need to give write access to your web browser to the directory and subdirectories of blue_admin/smarty/templates_c with the command chmod -R a+w blue_admin/smarty/templates_c
- You are done!
Steps for installing Blue ERP as a set of Egroupware modules
- Download the package blueerp-egw-0.6-RC2.tar.bz2 from the internet and untar it in your egroupware installation directory.
Note: the subdirectories of the blueerp-egw-0.6-RC1 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-0.6-RC2.tar.bz2 --strip-component=1 - Go to the egroupware setup screen, and install all the ck_*, blue_* modules, and as well entity and reports
- Log into egroupware as an administrator. In egroupware admin, grant access to the appropriate users to the newly installed applications (ck_*, blue_*, entity and reports)
- Go to ck-admin. If you see an error message saying that you don't have access to ck-admin, you will need to get into the egroupware administration and grant the appropriate rights to your user.
- (optional) Select the template blueerp to be used instead of the default idots for an even better experience with blueerp
- In the left menu of ck-admin, select Admin/Setup and follow the prompts. This will install all the tables required for blue erp to work. At the moment the only environment which work is to install a production environment and select the australian chart of accounts (option 4), the other ones may not be com patible with this release of Blue ERP.
- In order to use the "official invoice" feature, you will need to give write access to your web browser to the directory and subdirectories of blue_admin/smarty/templates_c with the command chmod -R a+w blue_admin/smarty/templates_c
- You are done!
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