30.6. Linux FAQ-O-Matic

A Frequently Asked Questions, list FAQ is even better, because the people with questions can be a little lazier and still find their answer right away. Unfortunately, maintaining a FAQ list requires effort; if people with the answers become lazy, the FAQ list becomes stale.

The Faq-O-Matic is a CGI-based system that automates the process of maintaining a FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions list. It allows visitors to your FAQ to take part in keeping it up-to-date. A permission system also makes it useful as a help-desk application, bug-tracking database, or documentation system.

These installation instructions assume

• Commands are Unix-compatible.

• The source path is /var/tmp, other paths are possible.

• Installations were tested on Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2.

• All steps in the installation will happen in super-user account root.

• FAQ-O-Matic version number is 2.709

These are the Package(s) required:

There are some prerequisites which you need to keep in mind before can install FAQ-O-Matic,

1. Apache web server should be already installed on your system in order to be able to use FAQ-O-Matic software.

2. Revision Control System, RCS file version management tools should also already be installed on your system to be able to use FAQ-O-Matic software.

To verify that the RCS package is installed on your system, use the following command:

        [root@deep ] /# rpm -qi rcs
      

        package rcs is not installed
      

To install the RCS package on your Linux system, use the following command:

        [root@deep ] /# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/
        [root@deep ] /# cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/
        [root@deep ]/RPMS# rpm -Uvh rcs-version.i386.rpm
      

        rcs                         ##################################################
      

        [root@deep ]/RPMS# cd /; umount /mnt/cdrom/