AcmeBase Download

The free version of AcmeBase can be downloaded here: acmebase-free.tar.gz.

This version of AcmeBase is free software. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

An annotated list of the AcmeBase files and their locations can be found at http://www.acmebase.org/acmebase_files.htm.

Install

Installing AcmeBase is fairly complex for it requires a database engine such as Postgres to be previously set up, and it requires web server software to also be set up with a web site defined for the directory where AcmeBase is to be installed. After that, you need to extract the files from the tarball and edit some configuration files and startup scripts which are described next.

The shell script clone/setupdb is used to setup and initialize the system. It has several settings that need to be edited before executing. The etc/site.conf is the primary system configuration file. It also needs to be edited before executing clone/setupdb. Refer to the clone/README.txt file for more instructions on how to set up the system.

The main documentation files are in html/doc.

The following steps should be done on the target computer before extracting files from the downloaded tar file.

1. Set up the Postgres software and initialize the database.
2. Create a Postgres database for the company.
3. Set up a system user who will "own" the company's database.
4. Change to be the database user just created.
5. Create a directory to be the web site's root directory.
6. Change your current directory to the directory just created.
7. Extract files from tar ball:
   $ tar xvzf acmebase-free.tar.gz