Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04

I've been trying for days to get redmine 2.x to work on various versions of Ubuntu. So far I've tried 12.04 and 13.10, all to no avail... except once. However I couldn't get any plugins to work on that so I trashed that VM.

Since Ubuntu 14.04 is now out, I figured I'd give that a try. I followed this guide, HowTo_Install_Redmine_on_Ubuntu_step_by_step, and am just getting a list of the files in the /usr/share/redmine/public directory. I also tried a couple other guides I found on the web and haven't had much luck.

I used to have redmine 2 installed a year or so ago, but lost that when I tried ugprading. Not a big deal as I only had it running a week or so. I'd really like to get redmine working at home again for tracking various projects I'm working on.

Considering I've not been able to get this up and running over the past week, it would be nice to get a set of steps together so that others can easily get redmine up and running with Ubuntu 14.04. I however am not so familiar with ruby or rails. I don't even have train tracks near my house. haha!

Anyways, to satisfy the requirements of requesting help... here goes. Pardon some of the stupid questions. Lots of this isn't explained. Perhaps if this, http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/667 , was bundled into a support.sh script, it would make things much easier.

root@redmine:~# rails --version
Rails 3.2.16
root@redmine:~#

Where exactly is my redmine directory?
root@redmine:~# RAILS_ENV=production script/about
-su: script/about: No such file or directory
root@redmine:~#

It seems there may be a long road ahead. Again, sorry I'm not so great with ruby/rails. I'm no developer so bear with me. I am however familiar with linux, and I love open source. I've been using linux since '99. One more question. If this is called redmine, why is the default theme blue?

Replies (6)

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Mike O'Neill over 10 years ago

In poking around some more I found I can use turnkey redmine. I've got that going and successfully installed CRM plugin. That's much further than I got before. I'll go ahead and use that for now. The turnkey ISO is using 2.2.3-stable, so I think that will work for my needs.

I'll probably come back to trying a later release later, after I become more familiar with ruby/rails.

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Martin Denizet (redmine.org team member) over 10 years ago

Hi Mike,

I wrote a blog post few days ago about installing Redmine 2.5.x on Debian 7.4 (Wheezy). It should be almost identical to working with Ubuntu (add sudo and some packages names may vary).
See: http://martin-denizet.com/install-redmine-2-5-x-with-git-and-subversion-on-debian-with-apache2-rvm-and-passenger/
Cheers,

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Mike O'Neill over 10 years ago

Excellent, thanks. I'll check that out a little later today. I've used Debian before. I'm currently running Debian with ZFS on top of software raid 5 (Higher performance/less resource usage) on the host with Proxmox VE kernel/packages installed.

I'll let you know if I run into any troubles.

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Mike O'Neill over 10 years ago

That worked awesome! Thanks for that, that was the easiest and most clearest guide I've read through in a very long time. Especially for one of that length. It was pretty much copy+paste on my part.

I did find one tiny mistake though, you had this all on one line. Looks like you just missed a line break. No big deal though.

apt-get install apache2 apache2-threaded-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev apache2 apt-get install libapache2-svn libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl libauthen-simple-ldap-perl openssl

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Martin Denizet (redmine.org team member) over 10 years ago

Hi Mike,
Thank you for the feedback, it's always nice to know when a contribution is useful!
I corrected the line missing, thanks for spotting it.
Note that I published today an Express Guide with more copy/paste and less details targeted to experienced users.

Cheers,

RE: Fresh redmine install on Ubuntu 14.04 - Added by Claudio Alarcon over 10 years ago

Hi all:

I created a repository to create a redmine server using vagrant for ubuntu 14.04 and the bundled redmine (2.4.2) on it:

https://github.com/clalarco/vagrant-redmine

bootstrap.sh could be useful to see how to configure web servers (nginx, apache2) and databases (sqlite3, mysql). I'm not sure postgres is working.

Please feel free to use the settings and fork repository.

Claudio.

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