<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 18:57 -0400, Blair Davis wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I'm setting up Debian 9.8 on a Dell 2850 to run Freeside.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Any gotcha's I should know about?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I assume a server type setup without a GUI is best?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Any default packages I don't need to install?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Any add-on packages I do need?</pre></blockquote><div>Hello Blair,</div><div><br></div><div>As a rule I typically do minimal installations with just openssh. The Freeside Debian packages typically have the proper dependencies so installing them doesn't typically take a lot of work.</div><div>A few things I did note during my last install was it had some issues working around installing ssmtp and there is still a dependency that tries to bring libev-perl in which will completely break apache. To get around these you can preinstall ssmtp so it is already there and on your apt install line include libev-perl- and it should install without any troubles.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div>Nathan Kennedy</div><div>Contracted Professional IT</div><div>(360) 637-1090</div><div>https://www.nkent.us/</div></span></div></body></html>