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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Installing Redmine from a package


To install Redmine from a package, we will use Debian jessie 8.2. Usually, I would recommend that you use Ubuntu server Long Term Support (LTS) instead. I would did this because it's more popular and has a larger community, but the Redmine version that comes with Ubuntu LTS is too outdated to be reviewed in this book (it's currently 2.4). However, Ubuntu LTS is largely based on the Debian stable repository, so the installation procedure should be the same for both systems (to make sure that it will be, I'm also going to use Ubuntu-style commands). Also, this in turn means that the very next Ubuntu LTS version is going to come with the version of Redmine that is currently shipped with Debian stable distribution. So, it can be said that we are going to use the future version of Ubuntu Server. Additionally, I personally prefer Debian stable over Ubuntu as the former is an older Linux distribution, is the original one, and has a more professional community...