Translation of FoireAuxQuestions by SDAKOTA (sjorsgielen@gmail.com)

Welcome to the FAQ of AlternC. This page is editable by everyone, simply by clicking on the Edit button at the bottom. This way everyone can add things to this FAQ.

General questions

Where is the documentation of AlternC?

A: We started to document AlternC on this Wiki, in the DocumentationAlternc? section. You can also visit admin manual (in French).

Why aren't there any other questions in here?

A: At this place, the most frequent questions are treated. You can add a question and its answer, because it's a Wiki, but think about the formatting.

You can find other questions at the Forum.

But what happened to the old FAQ?

A: The old FAQ wasn't more then a lot of lines, but now we made a seperate part (DocumentationAlternC).

How to manage my users? Where is the admin panel?

A: The administrators are users with high privileges. They can administrate the other members. "Root", the super admin, is created at the installation of AlternC. He manages all users.

I can't access the admin panel!

When I type "alternc.toto.org" in my web browser, I get a message that the page does not exist on the server.

A: Alternc uses the HTTP-SSL protocol. Try to access https://alternc.toto.org .

Installation problems

sasl-bin dependancy problems during installation

A: You'll have to search the package at http://apt-get.org and add the lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list. That'll probably repair the problem.

A: I simply added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

Don't forget to do a apt-get update after modifying the file.

A: Because stable = sarge, you can also do:

apt-get install libdb2
wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl/sasl-bin_1.5.27-3.1woody5_i386.deb
wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl/libsasl7_1.5.27-3.1woody5_i386.deb
dpkg -i libsasl7_1.5.27-3.1woody5_i386.deb
dpkg -i sasl-bin_1.5.27-3.1woody5_i386.deb

Some CVS packages resolved the problem, this is probably going to be fixed in the newest version of AlternC.

A: If sasl-bin is not going to be used, you can also add a package to replace it:

apt-get install equivs
equivs-control sasl-bin-empty

Then modify the file sasl-bin-empty as follows:

Package: sasl-bin-empty
Maintainer: Sylvain Beucler <Sylvain.Beucler@cliss21.org>
Provides: sasl-bin
Description: Empty/fake package to trick alternc
equivs-build sasl-bin-empty

Attention when choosing a MySQL version

A: Choose MySQL version 4.0!! All the other packages (php...) are using version 4.0 of MySQL and not all later versions!

Does a direct, clear explanation for installation/configuration exist?

A: No. This documentation is most clear and precise, for the moment. Someone who wants to improve it?

(28/04/2005) Try InstallationAlterncDebianNetInst

Can I install Alternc under Windows? If so, How?

A: It is at this moment not possible to install AlternC on Windows.

How to update AlternC or woody towards sarge?

A: This is very important: It is necessary to update alternc to version 0.9.3 before making the upgrade to Sarge!

TheAnarcat wrote documentation about this on Koumbit's wiki: http://koumbit.net/wiki/UpgradeAlternc.

On what distributions does AlternC work?

A: GNU/Linux SARGE (i.e. Debian/Testing) is the only distribution recommended. It is possible to use other modern distributions using the Aptitude system (Debian-based distributions) but nothing is guaranteed.

Can I use alternc on AMD-64 or Macintosh?

A: No, the only currently available packages are for Debian Sarge (testing) with the i386 architecture. Update: Builds were provided for milestone:0.9.3.1.

I did apt-get install alternc* which gives an enormous list of errors!

A: You should first install just alternc, then it's possible to install the optional packages, for example mailman.

But why should I use apt-get install alternc?

A: It installs all the necessary packages, and then automatically starts the configuration.

You can always reconfigure AlternC using:

dpkg-reconfigure alternc

or by editing the configuration file and running alternc.install.

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