[rt-users] Installation on debian Woody

[Atkinson, Daniel]

Interesting, I'll take a look.

When I did my upgrade I went to Sarge, the testing release. This was
sufficient to install RT3, didn't need to go to unstable. 

Forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something here....

Dan.

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From: Benjamin Reed [mailto:ben at oculan.com] 
Sent: 09 September 2003 14:33
To: Atkinson, Daniel
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Subject: Re: [rt-users] Installation on debian Woody

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Atkinson, Daniel wrote:

| I have RT3 running on Debian.
|
| I installed woody and upgraded it to sarge using 'apt-get
dist-upgrade' then
| installed RT using 'apt-get request-tracker3'.
|
| I also had to install postgres and do various configuration steps but
now it
| is all up and running and seems to be working fine.

What I did was use a woody, but upgraded as little as possible to make
rt3 installable.  You can do this through "pinning", ie having the
sources to stable, testing, and unstable in your sources.list, but
telling apt to weigh it so it prefers stable unless you specifically say
otherwise.

Then you can have a woody system, but do:

~  sudo apt-get -t unstable request-tracker3

...and it will get the bare minimum from unstable to satisfy the
dependencies (which is still, unfortunately, a lot, but it beats running
a *completely* unstable system... =)

See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html for more info on
pinning.