<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>This FAQ is created to motivate both Nexedi and the ERP5 community to improve</DIV><DIV>documentation. ERP5 is said to be easy to use once you get the hang of it.</DIV><DIV>However, right now getting there probably means visiting France. Nice as that</DIV><DIV>might be, it is not allways feasible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards Sebastian Ware </DIV><DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is a compilation of questions found in the <A href="mailto:erp5-users@erp5.org">erp5-users@erp5.org</A> mailing list. </DIV><DIV>It covers April, 2005 - Jan 3, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>if you read this and would like to improve it, please go ahead and post an update </DIV><DIV>by posting it on <A href="mailto:erp5-users@erp5.org">erp5-users@erp5.org</A>. Make sure you increase the minor version</DIV><DIV>number by one (i.e. from v0.1 to v0.2 or v0.9 to v0.10 etc).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We'll leave it up to the ERP5 team to decide whether it should go official.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I am a complete newbie, where do I start?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1 Start by browsing through this FAQ.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2 Then read some articles on ERP5.</DIV><DIV> <A href="http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi">http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3 Read the tutorial (there is a link in the FAQ).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4 Download the "live CD" (pointers in the FAQ).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>5 Install a Business Template and do some exploring</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>6 Join the mailing list</DIV><DIV> <A href="http://erp5.org/mailman/listinfo/erp5-users">http://erp5.org/mailman/listinfo/erp5-users</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I get lots of errors when trying to run ERP5, what is wrong?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- April, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>I'd recommend you reading this article:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html">http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is ERP5?</B></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- (<B>ERP5.org</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>ERP5 is a full featured high end Open Source / Libre Software solution published under GPL license and used for mission critial ERP/CRM/MRP/SCM/PDM applications by industrial organisations and government agencies.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- June, 2004 (<B><A href="http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi">http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi</A></B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>The ERP5 project started in 2002 when Coramy, an apparel industry leader in Europe, decided to migrate its in-house ERP solution to a new open source model. The choice of open source for Coramy ERP was a strategic move to reduce software maintenance costs and to allow Coramy to retain complete control over its custom developments, something that would have been impossible with standard proprietary ERP solutions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is Z3ERP?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>www.z3erp.org</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- August, 2005 (<B>Aurélien Calonne</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>On the behalf of ERP5 developer community,I am pleased to announce</DIV><DIV>Zope3 / ERP Project and its new moto: "no overhead, high performance".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The goal of the Z3ERP project is to leverage the Zope3 platform and</DIV><DIV>build an ERP solution based on ERP5 technologies with the capability of</DIV><DIV>handling more than 1,000 concurrent users or 1,000,000,000 business</DIV><DIV>records and compete with the famous proprietary ERP solutions. The</DIV><DIV>project has been discussed with ERP5 developers and customers in Africa,</DIV><DIV>Americas, Asia and Europe for now one year. Initial high performance</DIV><DIV>experimentations have been conducted with success and give us the</DIV><DIV>confidence that this goal can be reached.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Besides high performance, the project aims at providing full</DIV><DIV>compatibility with Zope2 implementations of ERP5, developing Javascript</DIV><DIV>Web user interfaces (AJAX) which increase enterprise productivity and</DIV><DIV>are compatible with high latency WAN networks, creating predefined</DIV><DIV>localisation guidelines and developing efficient model based</DIV><DIV>configuration solutions</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is the status of ERP5?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- January, 2006 (<B>Jean-Paul Smets</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>ERP5</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- ERP5 certified accounts were produced last spring</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- refactoring of production modules has been completed last summer</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- refactoring of business templates has been completed last week</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- simplified version of ERP5 is now used in small companies</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- high end version of ERP5 is now implemented in very large companies</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Next Step</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- New web site with simplified structure and documentation</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is the status of Z3ERP?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- January, 2006 (<B>Jean-Paul Smets</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Z3ERP</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Roadmap defined</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- ZSQLCatalog was optimised and accelerated by 4 to 10 times</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV>Next step</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- ZSQLCatalog for Zope3</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Which version of Zope should I use? </B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- January, 2006 (<B>Jean-Paul Smets</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>The recommended way is the LiveCD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Otherwise, it is required to install all the dependencies of ERP5 and </DIV><DIV>recompile Zope with a patch. Everything is provided in our source RPMs </DIV><DIV>(dependencies and patch).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/">http://www.nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/10.2-devel/SRPMS/">http://www.nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/10.2-devel/SRPMS/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Getting the same result as with the livecd would take a few hours. It is not </DIV><DIV>really difficult but requires some experience.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- December, 2005 (Jean-Paul Smets) -</DIV><DIV>The global list of dependencies is provided here:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://cvs.erp5.org/umigumi/config/erp5_cd.py?view=markup&rev=1.25">http://cvs.erp5.org/umigumi/config/erp5_cd.py?view=markup&rev=1.25</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The recommended version number is the version number used in Mandriva Linux </DIV><DIV>(version 10.2, 2005 or 2006). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, some packages must be overriden by Nexedi packages:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/">http://nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/</A></DIV><DIV>(take the ones for 10.2 in priority)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Finally, you should not use Formulator 1.9 because it is no longer </DIV><DIV>compatible with Localizer (we hope to fix that).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Which Zope-products do I need to install to get ERP5 running?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- October, 2005 (<B>Rafael Monnerat</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>I write a Installation Guide based in my install on slackware and after I</DIV><DIV>revised using Install on Mandriva. A big problem is the Guide are in</DIV><DIV>portuguese, not english. I can write a generic few steps, but I don't know</DIV><DIV>very much about Debian.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there a package convert? rpm2deb? you can used that to install the Zope</DIV><DIV>on nexdi....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Install the "dependencies" ( python libraries and zope products) as the same</DIV><DIV>way you install on others zope instances...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Python Libraries</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* PyXML (v. 0.8.4)</DIV><DIV>* Numeric</DIV><DIV>* PIL</DIV><DIV>* ReportLab 1.20</DIV><DIV>* ElementTree (1.2.6)</DIV><DIV>* Psyco ( 1.3 )</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Install Products</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Formulator (1.9.0)</DIV><DIV>* Photo (1.2.3)</DIV><DIV>* Localizer (1.1.0)</DIV><DIV>* CMF (1.4.8)</DIV><DIV>* TranslationService (0.4)</DIV><DIV>* BTreeFolder2 (1.0.1)</DIV><DIV>* CMFPhoto (1.2.3)</DIV><DIV>* ZMailin (1.0.1)</DIV><DIV>* CMFMailin ( 1.0.1)</DIV><DIV>* CMFReportTool</DIV><DIV>* CMFWiki ('retired-20040908' )</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Install the ERP5 from CVS, install these Products:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Base18</DIV><DIV>* CMFActivity</DIV><DIV>* CMFCategory</DIV><DIV>* CMFTranslation</DIV><DIV>* ERP5</DIV><DIV>* ERP5Catalog</DIV><DIV>* ERP5Compatibility</DIV><DIV>* ERP5Form</DIV><DIV>* ERP5OOo</DIV><DIV>* ERP5SyncML</DIV><DIV>* ZMySQLDDA</DIV><DIV>* ZSQLCatalog</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Copy the files :</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* /usr/lib/zope/python/Products/ERP5/Extensions/InventoryBrain.py</DIV><DIV>* /usr/lib/zope/python/Products/ZSQLCatalog/zsqlbrain.py</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* /var/lib/zope/Extensions</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>include the line on ERP5Compatibility/__init__.py</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* import Products.ERP5.Tool.Category</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Remove all files in MySQLDDA/help</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope this mail help you install. If you have an error during Install post</DIV><DIV>the error here.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- August, 2005 (<B>Bartłomiej Górny</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Installation of CVS version of ERP5 on Mandrake Linux</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>by Relja Stanisavljevic and Bart³omiej Górny</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>=====================================================</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Most of the required packages you can find on:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://smets.com/static/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/">http://smets.com/static/Mandrake/10.2/SRPMS/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Some of them are located in 10.1 and 10.0 directories.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For other packages either google or use the links given at the end of this document.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Follow these steps to install and run the CVS version of ERP5.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) Install the following:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- python (2.3.5 and 2.4.1 are ok)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- psyco-1.4-src.tar.gz</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- ReportLab 1.10</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- python-reportlab-accel-0.52.20050424-1mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- itools-0.7.4-1mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Imaging-1.1.5.tar.gz (from effbot.org)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- MySQL-Max</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Numeric-24.0b2.tar.gz (Python add-on)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(probably some more things that we already had...)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2) Get Zope</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- download zope-2.7.2rc1-1nxd.i586.rpm</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- extract zope source and Zope-2.7.2-rc1-aq_dynamic.patch</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- apply patch (patch -p1 < ../Zope-2.7.2-rc1-aq_dynamic.patch)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- build zope, make zope instance</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- install iHotfix-0.5.2 (download iHotfix-0.5.2-2mdk.src.rpm, extract the source, apply patch, copy __init__.py and version.txt to INSTANCE_HOME/Products/iHotfix) </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3) Install required Zope Products</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Get the following files, extract source from each of them, apply patches where any are present, then copy the result to your INSTANCE_HOME/Products directory, stripping version numbers from directory names).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>BTreeFolder2-1.0.1.tar.gz</DIV><DIV>CMF-1.4.8.tar.gz</DIV><DIV>CMFMailIn-1.0.0-2nxd.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>CMFPhoto-1.2.3-5mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>CMFReportTool-0.1.1.20050422-1mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>Formulator-1.9.0.tgz (apply Formulator-1.8.0-Editable.patch)</DIV><DIV>Localizer-1.1.0-3mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>Photo-1.2.3-5mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>TranslationService-0.4-1mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>ZMailIn-1.0.1-2mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV>ZMySQLDA-2.0.9b2-5mdk.src.rpm</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4) Tweak setup</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Copy:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ERP5/Extensions/InventoryBrain.py</DIV><DIV>INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ZSQLCatalog/zsqlbrain.py</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>INSTANCE_HOME/Extensions</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>5) Get the following from CVS:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>CMFActivity</DIV><DIV>CMFCategory</DIV><DIV>CMFTranslation</DIV><DIV>ERP5</DIV><DIV>ERP5Catalog</DIV><DIV>ERP5Form</DIV><DIV>ERP5SyncML</DIV><DIV>ERP5Type</DIV><DIV>ZSQLCatalog</DIV><DIV>erp5_bt5</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Place it all in your INSTANCE_HOME/Products</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>6) INSTANCE_HOME/bin/.runzope</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>7) Create an erp5 site</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Add ERP5 Site from ZMI</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It takes a long time, so be patient; if you check processes with 'top' and see nothing going on, don't panic - this is normal. Keep waiting - it will show up eventually.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>=====================================================</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Links to some of the required packages (found by Relja):</DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.5/Python-2.3.5.tar.bz2">http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.5/Python-2.3.5.tar.bz2</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.6/Zope-2.7.6-final.tgz">http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.6/Zope-2.7.6-final.tgz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/psyco/psyco-1.4-src.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/psyco/psyco-1.4-src.tar.gz?download</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.5.tar.gz">http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.5.tar.gz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mysql-python/MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mysql-python/MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz?download</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/Numeric-23.8.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/Numeric-23.8.tar.gz?download</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz?download">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz?download</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.4.8/CMF-1.4.8.tar.gz">http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.4.8/CMF-1.4.8.tar.gz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/SOURCES/CMFPhoto-1.2.3.tar.bz2">http://nexedi.org/static/Mandrake/SOURCES/CMFPhoto-1.2.3.tar.bz2</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/ZMailIn/1.0.1/ZMailIn-1-0-1.tgz">http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/ZMailIn/1.0.1/ZMailIn-1-0-1.tgz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://hathawaymix.org/Software/BTreeFolder2/BTreeFolder2-1.0.1.tar.gz">http://hathawaymix.org/Software/BTreeFolder2/BTreeFolder2-1.0.1.tar.gz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/NuxUserGroups/NuxUserGroups-0.9.3-1/NuxUserGroups-0.9.3-1.tgz">http://www.zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/NuxUserGroups/NuxUserGroups-0.9.3-1/NuxUserGroups-0.9.3-1.tgz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile/1.4.4/ExtFile-1.4.4.tar.gz">http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile/1.4.4/ExtFile-1.4.4.tar.gz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/ZGDChart/ZGDChart-0.6.5">http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/ZGDChart/ZGDChart-0.6.5</A> </DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ZopeTestCase/0.9.8/ZopeTestCase-0.9.8.tar.gz">http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ZopeTestCase/0.9.8/ZopeTestCase-0.9.8.tar.gz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/efge/TranslationService/0.4/TranslationService-0.4.tgz">http://www.zope.org/Members/efge/TranslationService/0.4/TranslationService-0.4.tgz</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://cvs.zope.org/CMF/CMFWiki/CMFWiki.tar.gz?tarball=1">http://cvs.zope.org/CMF/CMFWiki/CMFWiki.tar.gz?tarball=1</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.infrae.com/download/Formulator/1.9.0/Formulator-1.9.0.tgz">http://www.infrae.com/download/Formulator/1.9.0/Formulator-1.9.0.tgz</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is the "live CD"?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- August, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>We are happy to announce the release of the third release candidate of </DIV><DIV>the ERP5 Live CD. Please assume that this is a test version. You should </DIV><DIV>expect that the Live CD is still unstable and can lead to massive data </DIV><DIV>loss, although we have made a lot of effort to make it robust.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This version is available only by BitTorrent:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://bittorrent.com">http://bittorrent.com</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Once you set up BitTorrent, you can download the image file from this </DIV><DIV>URL:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://torrent.erp5.org/erp5-1.0rc3.iso.torrent">http://torrent.erp5.org/erp5-1.0rc3.iso.torrent</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>After you get the file, you can burn the image into a CD-R or CD-RW.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you have already tried the previous version, you will have to remove </DIV><DIV>the folder "erp5cd" and remake it. Otherwise, the Zope Products won't </DIV><DIV>be freshed correctly.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Note that this Live CD requires some free space on your hard disk in </DIV><DIV>order to store data in a permanent location. Please read carefully the </DIV><DIV>file "readme.txt" in the CD, before booting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is a list of important changes:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Added support for persistent configuration by config.tgz, config.sh and </DIV><DIV>config.xml.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Added support for ZEO.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Added more useful packages, such as cvs, cervisia and pdftk.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As usual, please send bugs to the mailing list <erp5-dev at erp5.org>.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I have downloaded the "live CD" but can't burn it. What am I doing wrong?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- September, 2005 (<B>Zoong PHAM</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>> I am trying to burn the image file (fs.img) in a CD but it shows me an</DIV><DIV>> error "isn't a CD image file". I am using Windows and Magic </DIV><DIV>> ISO Maker. I</DIV><DIV>> will appreciate some hints.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>After uncompressing the downloaded file, you will see a file with</DIV><DIV>extension</DIV><DIV>.iso.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You need to burn that iso image to a CD using any burning software.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The fs.img is one of the files in the iso image. </DIV><DIV>fs.img is NOT the file that you should burn to a CD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I am running the "live CD", but have problems with the video card?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- August, 2005 (<B>Alexandre Boeglin</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>What are your video card and monitor ?</DIV><DIV>You can try to force a generic driver by adding "xdrv=vesa" to the boot </DIV><DIV>line.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I am running the "live CD", how do I login?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- July, 2006 (<B>Shrenik Bhura</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>User: zope</DIV><DIV>Passwd: zope</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: What is the root password for the "live CD" to login to the Linux box in order </B></DIV><DIV><B> to do some network setting?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- June, 2006 (<B>Jean-Paul Smet</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>user: root</DIV><DIV>passwd: erp5root</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Where is the documentation?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- January, 2006 (<B>Jean-Paul Smets</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Actually ERP5 is not complex but is still not enough documented. We have now </DIV><DIV>about 200 pages of documentation but we think 2000 pages would be required </DIV><DIV>to teach everything. Since it is impossible to produce at this stage, we </DIV><DIV>will first concentrate on documenting core features of ERP5 and extending </DIV><DIV>the documenting towards more advanced features whenever time or resources </DIV><DIV>permit.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One of our goals in 2006 is to make a few core business templates easy to </DIV><DIV>use and documented.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- May, 2005 (Yoshinori Okuji) -----------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>I'm pleased to announce the first version of the English translation of </DIV><DIV>Kevin's Tutorial. You can find the PDF version and the OpenOffice.org version </DIV><DIV>from this URL:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/">http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I acknowledge Chris Purves and Shrenik Bhura for their great contribution to </DIV><DIV>this work. Also, I send kudos to Kevin Deldycke and Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes </DIV><DIV>for their help.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Please feel free to send bug reports about the translation and/or the original </DIV><DIV>document to the mailing list erp5-dev.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- April, 2005 (<B>Jean-Paul Smets</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>I posted a tutotial on ERP5. It is good according to some developers who </DIV><DIV>learnt with it, it has 70 pages but</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- it still has some inconsistencies (although I proof read it 3 times)</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- it is in French (I am really sorry)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If anyone wants to translate it in English, I would be quite grateful.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/erp5_developer_tutor3600/view">http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/erp5_developer_tutor3600/view</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/erp5_developer_tutor/view">http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/erp5_developer_tutor/view</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/view">http://www.erp5.org/sections/documentation/articles/view</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Is anybody using ERP5 in production?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- May, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>We may not say much due to trade secret, but, yes, ERP5 is used in several </DIV><DIV>production systems.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- June, 2004 (<B><A href="http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi">http://pythonology.org/success&story=nexedi</A></B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>ERP5 is in production in the apparel industry and government agencies with multi-gigabyte databases that track millions of warehouse stock movements. ERP5 is written entirely in Python and leverages the Zope Enterprise Objects framework to provide high performance and availability on clusters of inexpensive PCs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: I have problems installing Business Templates. Why?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- January, 2006 (<B>Bartłomiej Górny</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>From what Nexedi guys are saying, business templates </DIV><DIV>available for download are meant to work with the most recent (CVS) </DIV><DIV>version of ERP5. No use of trying to get them to work with LiveCD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Why MySQL-max? Does it Work with MySQL? Has a special reason?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- September, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Because of InnoDB.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Is ERP5Shop working?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- September, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Yes, as you see in storever.com. But you need a good version of MMMShop. </DIV><DIV>Currently, ERP5Shop is being redesigned.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: In CVS have a erp5_catalog, when I install this template, the Erp5 has problems?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- September, 2005 (<B>Yoshinori Okuji</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>Please don't use erp5_catalog.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><B>Q: Can I use ERP5 with OpenBSD?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">- July, 2005 (<B>Sebastien Robin</B>) -----------------------------------------------------</SPAN></DIV><DIV>ERP5 may run on OpenBSD, and we don't want it Linux-specific, even if we </DIV><DIV>use only GNU/Linux.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But it may be somewhat difficult to get it running on OpenBSD. May be some </DIV><DIV>python package are missing, you will need to pach zope (our patch is </DIV><DIV>available with the rpm of zope provided by Nexedi) and I'm not sure our </DIV><DIV>patch will works well for OpenBSD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You will find on this mail list the list of steps in order to get ERP5 </DIV><DIV>running on any Linux system (mail from Bartłomiej Górny), you should </DIV><DIV>probably do the same thing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As always, it is more simple to use the LiveCD if you want to get ERP5 </DIV><DIV>running very quickly.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- End of FAQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>