= Install Request Tracker 5 (RT) on Ubuntu 20.04 =


Update system package cache;
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# sudo su
# apt update
# apt upgrade
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=== Install Required Build tools ===
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# apt install build-essential libapache2-mod-fcgid libssl-dev libexpat1-dev libdbd-mysql-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libhtml-formattext-withlinks-andtables-perl libhtml-formattext-withlinks-perl html2text
}}}
=== Install Apache Web Server ===
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#apt install apache2
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=== Install MariaDB Database Server ===
Install MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 20.04;
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# apt-key adv --fetch-keys 'http://mariadb.org/mariadb_release_signing_key.asc'

# add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64] http://mariadb.mirror.globo.tech/repo/10.5/ubuntu focal main'

#apt update
#apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client
}}}

=== Install Request Tracker (RT) ===
Download RT 5 Tarball
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# wget https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-5.0.0.tar.gz
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You can now extract the source code;
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# tar xzf rt-5.0.0.tar.gz
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Compile and Install Request Tracker (RT)

Change to RT 5 source code directory and configure it to adapt it to the system as well as check if required package dependency is met;
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# cd rt-5.0.0/
# ./configure
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Next, check for package dependency.
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# make testdeps
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