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[David Godfrey]

Hi Greg,

Interesting comments you've made.
Any chance you could send me the exact version number of the package you
installed?

I thought those issues had been fixed for the currently available packages.

Regards
David G

On 21/06/16 10:36, Gregory Orange wrote:
> On 21 June 2016 at 10:32, David Godfrey <info at sbts.com.au> wrote:
>> Just a word of warning, the LedgerSMB package in the Debian "main"
>> Repositories is probably 1.3, DON'T install that.
>> Rather use the version available from http://apt.ledgersmb.org which is 1.4
>> There are significant improvements.
>>
>> We have a team member who is working on getting 1.4 into the main debian
>> repositories, but as usual meeting the requirements to get a package
>> into main after release is non-trivial.
> Okay, well I think I'll be leaving this alone until my next round of
> quarterly recording efforts, so perhaps it will be in mainline apt by
> then (I'm on Lubuntu 14.04 FYI), or perhaps I'll do as you say and add
> that apt repo.
>
> Also FYI, the default Apache LedgerSMB config is a little broken.
> You're probably aware that Debian-esque installs do things a bit
> differently, i.e. with conf-available/ and conf-enabled/ to be managed
> by a2enconf et al. Well, ledgersmb-httpd.conf was installed into
> conf.d/ - no biggie, just copied it across to conf-available. Also,
> CGI wasn't properly configured - the .pl file attempts to download
> instead of running. Some things that would smooth the first time
> experience.
>
> Peace,
> Greg.
>