[Typo3-debian] Debian-Install-Package

[Hahn-Athenstaedt, Robert]

Hi Michael,

many thanks for your fast reply! As you know, I#m still a bloody newbee, thats why everything takes its time :-)

> > For the first time it also installed typo3, but not (as 
> espected) the
> > additional moduls needed by typo3. Is this the normal 
> behavior or what may
> > be wrong?
> 
> No, this is correct. See below:

Ah, ok.

> 
> ======
> webmaster at ch1ws447:~$ apt-cache show typo3-base
> Package: typo3-base
> Source: typo3-src
> Version: 3.5.0-2
> Priority: extra
> Section: web
> Maintainer: Michael Stucki <mundaun at gmx.ch>
> Depends: apache, php4, php4-mysql, mail-transport-agent | exim, wget
> Recommends: mysql-server (>= 3.23.1-1), php4-gd | php4-gd2, php4-cgi, 
> imagemagick
> Suggests: diff, zip, xpdf-utils, catdoc
> Architecture: all
> Filename: ./typo3-base_3.5.0-2_all.deb
> ======
> 
> apt-get will only regard the 'Depends'. All other packages 
> are kept in 
> 'Recommends' and 'Suggests' fields.
> These fields will be processed by the 'dselect' frontend for example.

Ok, I will have to learn, how the dselect-command works. I'll take a look in the docs first ;-)
btw: I've got gdlib via apt-get, too, but I think they have to be configured for the use with php.
When using dselect, will this be handled automatically? Or can you give me a hint how to configure/make the gdlib-using?


> ... (And yes, the dependencies for 'wget' and 'zip' will be 
> removed in the next 
> release...)
> 
> This is a good point  to discuss! Do you think I should keep 
> it this way or 
> change every package to a dependency?

I don't know whats possible. From my point of view the best install package would use a kind of dialog to inform, what it does at the moment, and to ask/interact, if additional features and dependencies should be installed, too.
So you would know (at least a little) about the procedures and what will be changed on your server.
And after finishing a text with some additional instructions about the typo3-using (installed in a special dir.; symlink to it from the users dirs this or that way etc.) would make the dummy user (like me) of your package the happiest man on earth :-)

> I could even create a dummy-package, i.e. 'typo3-suite', 
> which has all the 
> packages from above in a 'Depends' field.

A dialog for choices, if possible (see above) would be the best way ...

> Run dselect and install it again. I'm sure it will ask you...

I will have a try and will ask again, if I don't know what to do.
Thanks again and greatings!

- rob -


PS:
I have problems with the mysql. I can't use it because of this kind of message:

> mysql status
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root at localhost' (Using password: NO)

I have no root password up to now and don't know how to fix this problem, when the root can't do that. And because mysql was preinstalled, there're no installation-infos to deinstall mysql.
Any hint for this problem?