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Hi Ingo,

thank you for your posting.

It works!!! There was a little mistake in the Postgres.sql file, but I fixt 
it. The rest was how described in your mail.

Now I had the opportunity to evaluate it.

If we decide to use Kontor I will mail to this list.

Regards
Marco

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:20:04 +0200
> From: Ingo Ferchland <fer...@co...>
> To: kon...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Kontor-user] Installation Kontor
>
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 14:20:20 +1200
>
> Christopher Sawtell <csa...@pa...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 May 2004 04:29, Marco Huber wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'll try to install the Linux-Kontor.
> > >
> > > I don't know if the community of this project is allready alive (there
> > > is not much activity).
> >
> > I think it has, in effect, died. Yours is the first e-mail on the list
> > since I re-joined at the beginning of April 2004. It seems that the
> > project has been abandoned to SourceForge to find its own way in the
> > world.
>
> I agree. I took two weeks until it works. I was intresting on the
> data-structure of the sql-database. My idea ist to use kontor and write
> missing parts with GNUe-komponents. Unfortunately, GNUe is under heavy
> development and we have to wait at least a year. :-(
>
> I had to make a lot changes in kontor. I can't imagine that it worked "out
> of the box" on a machnine somewhere. Here my experiences:
> 0. Download my kontor-source from
> 	www.olvenstedt.de/kontor_20040525.tgz
> . Note that source has a lot of changes. Use it only for experimental! I
> have never printed something or stored some articles. It is verry, verry
> probably that some errors occur. I got a lot SQL-errors (missing fields and
> other simple things). Everytime it occour, i had to fix sql-installation
> script. More later. Extract it for the first time the source on the same
> place like on my machine. If everything is running you can change it.
> Extract to
> /source
> 	/ext
> 		/kontor
> 			/IoS
> 			/CVS
> 			/htdocs
>
> ...etc.
>
> 1. I uses JDK 1.4 (j2sdk-1_4_2-nb-3_5_1-bin-linux.bin downloaded from SUN)
> Installed in the default /opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/.
>
> There is a class Iterator in kontor and Sun impemented a interface
> Iterator, starting from version 1.4. I had to rewrite the code to full
> qualify all occurence of Iterator. (Iterator =>
> de.ios.framework.basic.Iterator)
>
> 2. Download from postgresql.org the fitting "postgresql.jar". The name is
> slightliy different. In my case pg74.213.jdbc3.jar. Move/rename it to
> /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar.
>
> 3. I use debian. I had to install (apt-get install package)
> - postgresql
> - postgresql-contrib (this includes the used  refint.so)
>
> 4.
> - create a user "postgres" with password "post" as (system-account? - i am
> not sure) _and_  postgresql-user ("createuser postgres -P") - "createuser
> kontor -P" mit password kontor
> - cd /source/ext/kontor/IoS/kontor/bin/tools
> - "createdb iosdb"
> - "./createDB.sh postgres post"
> - if you see an error: read carfully the message, "dropdb iosdb", and start
> again on "createdb iosdb" - cd ..
> - ./kontor.server
> - now the server should run
>
> - cd /source/ext/kontor/IoS/kontor/bin/tools
> - "./createMenu.sh etc/kontor.en"
> - "./kontor.menu"
> Now, the client should run, login as admin mit password admin
>
> Additional hints:
> A central point of the installation is
> /source/ext/kontor/IoS/kontor/sql/PostgreSQL/kontor.create.sql. I had the
> most problem here. I had the feeling, that Adabas is case sensitive and
> postgre is case intensive. So i removed any CamelCase. One nessesary change
> in java was: sTableName  to  sTableName.toLowerCase() !!
>
> I compiled the project with a "make" from
> kontor/IoS/framework/java
> _and_
> kontor/IoS/kontor/java
> (the tgz-file, mentioned above, is alread compiled)
>
> But i needed some *.class they not exists as *.java!
> ./IoS/framework/classes/de/ios/framework/db2/DBObjectHashCode.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/StammdatenP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/BuchhaltungP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/FinanzP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/MainP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/VerkaufP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/LagerP.class
> ./IoS/framework/classes/de/ios/framework/gui/VLP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/StammdatenP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/BuchhaltungP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/FinanzP.class
> ./IoS/kontor/classes/de/ios/kontor/cl/main/AuswertungP.class
> I simple moved it from the bin-distribution. All classes end with a P.
> Perhaps there is a way to create the classes? Any Idea?
>
>
> Look also in the outdated installation-pdf on kontor-homepage. Also
> download the old homepage. There are some hints too. Thank you also to
> http://www.bytesitter.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&re
>q=listarticles&secid=1 Unfortunately, your installation-script does not work
> for me, but some good hints i got.
>
> Regards
> Ingo Ferchland
>
> > > I'll try to install it on Suse 9.0 with Postgre 7.4.x
> > > Because I have allready installed the jdk 2 from Sun I try to get the
> > > old 1.1.8 (How the "Howto" describe)
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work (It want to link to my java2 path). Has anyone and
> > > idea or experience with installing Kontor?
> >
> > iirc, Several years ago, I got it to at least install shortly after the
> > project was launched, but at that stage in the Kontor development, most
> > of the documentation and screen annotations were in German, so this poor
> > mono-lingual Englishman was totaly lost. It looked so good, and it was a
> > great disappointment to find that I could not make use of it without
> > considerable effort and expense.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely etc.
> > Christopher Sawtell
> >
> > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me,
> > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine.
> > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
> >
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:41:12 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Frank Bergmann <fr...@ce...>
> To: kon...@li...
> Subject: PGFakt  Re: [Kontor-user] Installation Kontor
>
> Moin Moin,
>
> hatte mich ebenfalls vor 2 Jahern mal an Kontor versucht, aber der Aufwand
> war zu gross. Ausserdem wird Kontor nicht weiter entwickelt:-(
>
>
> Inzwischen benutze ich das OS Projekt pgfakt.de.  Ist wohl =E4hnlich wie
> Kontor aufgebaut (bin kein Programmierer) und setzt den Schwerpunbkt
> derzeit auf Warenwirtschaft, weil: ist noch in der Entwicklung.
>
> Buchf=FChrung, Lagerhaltung/Webshop sind Punkte, die noch kommen werden.
>
>
> Naja, schaut es euch mal an. Vielleicht ist es ja auch was f=FCr euch!?
>
>
> Viele Gr=FC=DFe,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
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