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GNUHealth for openSUSE
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GNUHealth is a free Health and Hospital Information system build on top of Tryton, an OpenSource ERP framework.
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This is the openSUSE package for GNUHealth. It was build to simplify the installation and maintenance of a system, to make it useable for 'end-users' as well.
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To achieve this goal, the openSUSE package handles some things different than the GNUHealth standard:
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1) No installation from source code
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GNUHealth has an installation script (gnuhealth_install.sh)that installs the Software from the source code.
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It has shown that this can cause a lot of trouble with dependencies (other software packages that are required to run GNUHealth and the Tryton Server), as they may be named slightly different in your Linux-distribution, or are just not listed.
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To avoid hassle for each and every end user, openSUSE uses the Open Build Service [1] to create a package where all dependencies are resolved for you.
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As a consequence, you install the package 'gnuhealth' with the openSUSE package manager, and the system does the rest for you. See [2] for installation advise.
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2) GNUHealth depends on Tryton
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Tryton [3] is the technical backend for GNUHealth. Tryton can run as ERP-System on its own. For the reasons explained under 1) , Tryton is build as well as package for openSUSE, following the same philosophy. See [4]for details.
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See as well: /usr/share/doc/packages/trytond/tryton-server.README.SUSE on your local installation
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3) GNUHealth is build on top of Tryton
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Unlike the standard GNUHealth setup, openSUSE treats GNUHealth as add-on (additional modules) to a Tryton standard installation. The implications are:
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- The Tryton Server (basis for GNUHealth) runs under the user 'tryton', not under the user 'gnuhealth'
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- you can use the openSUSE standard tools to start and stop the server [4]
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- you can use the openSUSE package manager (zypper or YaST) to install upgrades.
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- You *SHOULD NOT* use gnuhealth-control to install upgrades! gnuhealth-control forces an installation from source, and by this may break your installation
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- all Tryton and GNUHealth modules are installed in the python directory /usr/lib/python/site-packages/trytond
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Nevertheless, you can use gnuhealth-control to create database backups, install languages and updates. Make sure the version of gnuhealth_control ends on -openSUSE
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You may use the GNUHealth mailing list (health@gnu.org) for remarks or questions.
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Digital Signatures
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In order to make use of GNUHealth's capabilities to digitally sign documents, you need to create a PGP-key for the user logged in to the operating system.
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From the start menu, start the program Kgpg and follow the instructions, it will guide you through the process of key generation. Choose the maximal key length (4096).
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Use a passphrase with Capital letters, small letters, numbers and special characters (like %$§ etc) and have at least 12 digits for the passphrase - the more, the better.
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Keep the passphrase in a secure location, and take a backup of the PGP keys (located in ~/gnupg - in the live CD this is /home/gnuhealth/.gnupg ).
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Have fun and keep the neighborhood well and fit!
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[1] https://build.opensuse.org
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[2] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Operating_System-Specific_Notes#OpenSUSE
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[3] http://www.tryton.org
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[4] https://code.google.com/p/tryton/wiki/InstallationonopenSUSE
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-- Axel Braun <axel.braun@gmx.de> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:08:00 +0200
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