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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 sources


This is the most complicated but the officially recommended installation option. It is also the best documented one. Certainly, these instructions can change for future versions of Redmine, so if you are going to install a version newer than 3.2, you should also check out the official installation tutorial, which is available at http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall.

Tip

I guess you are going to use SSH to install Redmine on a remote server? If so, consider using the screen tool. The network connection can potentially be dropped during the installation process, what can damages the incomplete installation. The screen tool can help here by creating a virtual terminal that will continue its work even if the connection gets lost. To install this tool, use sudo apt-get install screen. To create a terminal screen, just execute screen. Finally, to reattach the terminal, execute screen -r.

This time, I will use a clean Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS,...