3.1. Overview

Important

The INSTALL file in GForge package and README files in plugin directories are the authoritive sources for installation instructions and they should have more precedence over this guide.

Note

This installation guide is for GForge 4.5.3.

GForge has a lot of different pieces touching a lot of different components in the system. Cronjobs are required to maintain the system, touching lots of files on a daily and hourly basis, including /etc/* system files.

The plugins that now manage the CVS and SVN functionality have made installation slightly harder because even more files have to be moved into place during installation.

The manual installation of GForge is documented below. Be sure to follow each step carefully, check the forums for frequently asked questions, and ask your Apache, Mailman, and PostgreSQL installation questions in the corresponding mailing lists rather than on the GForge forums where little help is available.