GNU Health/Operating System-Specific Notes

This chapter applies to version 3.6 of GNU Health.

openSUSE

Download and install the Operating System

• Download the openSUSE Leap Network CD image
• Check the partitioning and FS options (we use ext4 filesystem)
• Select SERVER (text only) installation
• Enable SSHD server
• Create the user "gnuhealth" when prompted at installation time.
  

Install the requirements

sudo zypper in patch gcc libxml2-devel  postgresql postgresql-server unoconv python3-pip python3-devel

Initialize the PostgreSQL environment. The next systemctl start command will generate the initial pg cluster.

systemctl start postgresql

Update locally pip3

su - gnuhealth
pip3 install --upgrade --user pip

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Debian

This chapter applies to version 3.6 of GNU Health.

Download and install the Operating System

• Download the Debian OS image
• Check the partitioning and FS options (we use ext4 filesystem)
• Deselect the "Debian desktop environment" if you just want a server (no graphical interface)
• Enable SSHD server
• Create the user "gnuhealth" when prompted at installation time.
  

Install the requirements

apt-get install postgresql patch python3-pip unoconv

Continue with the GNU Health Installation

FreeBSD

This chapter applies to version 3.8 of GNU Health.

At Operating System installation

• Select SSHD
• Create the gnuhealth user at installation time

Install requirements

 # pkg install postgresql13-server wget bash py37-pip \
 #  py37-lxml py37-pillow patch rust

Initialize PostgreSQL

 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql oneinitdb
 # sysrc postgresql_enable=yes
 # service postgresql start

Create Python3 links

 # ln -si /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /usr/local/bin/python3
 # ln -si /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python

Change /bin/bash to /usr/local/bin/bash

The first line of script that starts gnuhealth (start_gnuhealth.sh) is pointing to /bin/bash. On FreeBSD you have to change that to /usr/local/bin/bash.

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CentOS

Install Python 3.8

# yum install python3
# yum install python3-devel

Install PostgreSQL 12

# yum -y install https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install epel-release yum-utils sudo yum-config-manager --enable pgdg12 sudo yum install postgresql12-server postgresql12

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Ubuntu

• These instructions apply to Ubuntu 20.04 and Armbian 20.05 version
• Create the gnuhealth user at installation time

Update the Sources

apt-get update

Install requirements

apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-12 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python3-dev pkg-config libfreetype6-dev postgresql patch python3-pip unoconv libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev

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Armbian

• These instructions apply to Armbian 20.05 version
• Create the gnuhealth user at installation time

Update the Sources

apt-get update

Install requirements

apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-12 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python3-dev pkg-config libfreetype6-dev postgresql patch python3-pip unoconv libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev

Continue with the GNU Health Installation