Installing LedgerSMB 1.6

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Installation from tarballs

This page contains the comprehensive version with the installation instructions for LedgerSMB 1.6 targetting a production installation from release tarballs and deals with these steps:

  • Installing the LedgerSMB Perl module dependencies
  • Configuring the PostgreSQL server
  • Configuring a webserver
  • Configuring LedgerSMB

If you already have all of the above, please proceed to the "Preparing for first use" guide.

1.6 release notes

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What's new in LedgerSMB 1.6

  • Inventory adjustments based on GL transactions
  • "System Information" page in setup.pl
  • New "smtpport" option in ledgersmb.conf
  • Automatic detection of the temporary directory
  • Reports and search results exportable as XLS(X)
  • New and faster menu

When upgrading from 1.4 or older, please read the 1.5 release announcement and 1.5 upgrade instructions.

1.5.20 Released

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The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.20

  • Fix inability to save custom sequences (System > Sequence) (Erik H, #3511)
  • Fix error when downloading balance sheet as PDF (Erik H, #3515)
  • Fix empty backup file due to PGObject::Util::DBAdmin 0.120 (Erik H, #3531)
  • Norwegian (nb) translation update (Havard S)

Erik H is Erik Huelsmann
Havard S is Havard Sorli

1.5.19 Released

Submitted by ehu on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.19

1.5.18 Released

Submitted by ehu on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.18

1.5.17 Released

Submitted by ehu on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.17

1.5.16 Released

Submitted by ehu on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application. The trial
period of the 1.5-slim Docker image has been extended by one more
release (due to practical reasons).

This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.16

1.5.15 Released

Submitted by ehu on

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application. As of this
release, we're publishing a docker image based on the debian *-slim
images, which reduces the Docker Hub reported size from 220MB (regular
1.5 image) to 150MB (slim image). When we don't get any negative feedback
regarding the slim image, the next release will be based on that.

This release contains the following fixes and improvements:

Changelog for 1.5.15

Year overview 2017

Submitted by ehu on

It's becoming a tradition for me to write about the state of the community and what has been going on in the project at this time of year. This will be the third time to look back over the past year and look into what the next could bring.

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