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h1. Requirements
before you start, make sure you have:
* Puppet >= 0.24-4
* rake >= 0.84
* rubygems
* ruby-sqlite3 (libsqlite3-ruby) if you are going to use sqlite as your database
* git (if installing from source )
The installation has been successfully tested on RHE5 and Ubuntu 8.04 - 9.04, for older operating systems you might need additional packages (e.g. sqlite)
h1. Download
h2. Latest stable release
Latest stable version can be found "here":http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/22/foreman-0.1-1.tar.bz2 "here":http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/21/foreman-0.1.tar.bz2
h2. Latest source code
You can get the latest source code of Foreman from the git repository hosted at github.
This is the preferred way to get Foreman if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the git repository you can also upgrade more easily.
to get latest "stable" version do:
<pre><code>git clone git://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman
cd foreman
git submodule init
git submodule update
</code></pre>
* if you are behind a proxy or firewall and dont have access to github using the git protocol, use http protocol instead (e.g.)
<pre>
git clone http://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman
cd foreman
sed -i 's/git:\/\//http:\/\//g' .gitmodules
git submodule init
git submodule update
</pre>
h1. Initial setup
h2. Database
Foreman uses a database, this database can be shared with Puppet store-configs (they are compatible, as Foreman extends the puppet database schema).
By default, SQLite is used, if you want to use other database (e.g. MySQL) please modify the configuration file under +config/database.yml+.
If you want to share the database with Puppets (storeconfig), just modify +config/database.yml+ to point to the same database configuration as puppet is.
In both cases, please use the *production* settings.
to initialize the database schema type:
<code>RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate</code>
h2. Import Data from Puppet
At this point, you might want to go through the [[FAQ]] to see how can you import your data into Foreman.
h2. Start The Web Server
Start the built in web server by typing:
<code>./script/server -e production</code>
and point your browser to http://foreman:3000
If you would like to keep the server running, I would recommend to setup passenger, an puppet manifest example could be found [[Passenger setup example|here]].
h1. Future Updates
see [[Upgrade instructions]]
h1. Problems?
see [[Troubleshooting]]