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How to install plugins in PKGR version
Added by Andreas Hackel over 10 years ago
Hi!
I installed OpenProject using PKGR (https://pkgr.io/apps/tessi/openproject) which I can recommend since it is an easy and painless process.
I haven’t been able to add any plugins to the installation though. How do we do this? Simply creating a Gemfile.plugin file and following the upgrade steps (sudo openproject run rake db:migrate) doesn’t work.
Thanks
Andreas
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Hi Andreas,
I am the author of the PKGR project. Please note that the pkgr installation is not (yet) officially supported by the OpenProject team. It’s a thing I did in my free time :).
That being said, I just haven’t had enough time to think about pkgr and plugins.
It is, however, possible to manually install plugins (by adding a
Gemfile.plugins
file and doing a bundle install etc.). At this point you have the usual installation pain back.Maybe there is a way to install plugins via apt-get too (
sudo apt-get install openproject-translations
) - currently, I have no idea how to acomplish that, though.A different way would be to not package the OpenProject core, but include some ‘default plugins’ into the openproject package. This is pretty easy, but we have to settle for a given set of plugins everyone agrees with.
yours,
tessi
Hi Tessi!
Thanks for the quick reply.
I hope your project gets official support soon. I was impressed how simple and quick I could install OpenProject with PKGR after spending much time doing it the manual way.
Thanks for the great work you do in your free time! :)
Andreas
Hello again,
Cyril (the pkgr.io founder) was so kind to provide plugin installation steps in his github gist .
I tested his instructions on my test setup and they work well :)
Disclaimer: I cannot guaranteee if all future openproject updates work with the plugins (I simply cannot test all possible combinations of all plugins). So take extra care with updates.
yours,
tessi
Hi All,
As a new user I found the installation using this method quite painless. Thank you!
The only problem I had was getting email working. Well, it was working but I couldn’t tell because I had the “I don’t want to be notified of changes that I make myself” box checked in my/account. The test email apparently abides by this box and won’t send the test email to you. I just wanted to alert anyone else who may run into the same problem.
Also, I was able to install the Meetings, Git and Documents plugins. In the case of Meetings I had to use the “dev” branch to get it working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Jim