1.1. Installing Plone on Linux

Next: Installing Bika LIMS  

• Open Synaptic Package Manager

• Enter your password as requested
• Search (Edit->Search...) for Plone
• Type 'Plone' in your search box, and select 'Description and Name' in the 'Look In' drop-down.
• Select 'zope-cmfplone' and 'plone-site' from your search result list. This should automatically download all needed dependencies. Select by right-clicking the two items and select 'Mark for Installation'
• Then select 'Apply' from the tool bar.
• Confirm that you want to download the selected packages.
• You will be asked to supply an administrative login and password, for the purpose of this manual we will use;

• Login: admin

• Password: local

• Plone instance can be found at /var/lib/zope2.9/instance/plone-site
• Within the 'plone-site' directory contains the following directories;
• bin => this is where runzope resides, which contents might need to be edited (in text editor) if the installation differers then here described
  
• etc => this is where 'zope.conf' resides, which you need to edit to inser the 'environment' directive (see Bika Installation page) and possibly the port, by default: HTTPPORT 8080
  
• Extensions =>
  
• import => This folde ris used to store '*.zexp' files that you can impoprt into Plone.
  
• lib =>
  
• log => Contains log files
  
• Products => Product directory, where Bika LIMS, Bika Wine, Bika Interlab product folders are copied into.
  
• var => Where the database files reside.
  

Next: Installing Bika LIMS