Installing GNATS

See section Where GNATS lives.

There are several steps you need to follow to fully configure and install GNATS on your system. You need root access in order to create a new account for gnats and to install the GNATS utilities. You may need root access on some systems in order to set mail aliases in place and to allow this new account access to cron and at.

If you are updating an older version of GNATS rather than installing from scratch, see section Upgrading from older versions.

To build GNATS, you must:

• Run configure, with correct options if the defaults are unsuitable for your site. See section Configuring and compiling the software. Default installation locations are in section Where GNATS lives.
• Compile the GNATS programs on your system. See section Configuring and compiling the software.
• Install the GNATS tools and utilities locally, and install the user tools on every machine in your local network. See section Installing the utilities.
• Set up mail aliases for GNATS. See section Setting up mail aliases.
• Install the GNATS user tools (query-pr, edit-pr, send-pr) around your network. See section Installing the user tools.
• Update the local configuration files

  config      categories  submitters  responsible
  

  in `GNATS_ROOT/gnats-adm'. See section Changing your local configuration.
• Create a distribution of send-pr for submitters outside your organization. See section Configuring send-pr for the outside world.

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