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Lucane is an open source groupware solution that doesn’t require remarkable installation and configuration time. It is simple to use and has a modular architecture including all needed groupware modules like email-client, instant messaging, shared folders, calendar, white board, forums and more.This short article will help you to start with Lucane in a Linux and Windows environment and should give you in impression how easy it is to install and to use. Lucane is written in Java and was running without any problems in our test environment consisting of Linux servers and clients and a Windows XP client. We just need Java (JRE and JVM) and a database (MySQL or Postgres). If you don't want to install a database, Lucane is bundled with HSQLdb and requires no installation. We will use this database to keep it simple.

This workshop setup could look like this:

Step 1 – Linux Server installation

I’m using Mandriva Linux 2005 LE (DVD version) to install the server, but it should work with other Linux distributions as well. First, please make sure to have the packages j2re-1.4.2_07-1mdk installed. Please find it on your installation DVD or download it here:

http://rpms.mandrivaclub.com/rpms/mandrivaclub/comm/Development_Java.html

Second, download the Lucane RPM packages here and store it into your installation directory (i.e. /installations):

http://lucane.org/EN/download/

The installation is like already mentioned very simple. Just do this:

su
cd /installations
rpm –i lucane-0.7.5-1.noarch.rpm

Your Linux system will need some time to install Lucane. After that, you will find the application in the following subdirectory:

/usr/local/lucane-0.7.5-bin

You will discover four subdirectories with all files needed for the server, client or proxy setup and the documentation.

Its time to start the server with the following commands. Please watch for errors:

cd /usr/local/luvane-0.7.5-bin/server/bin
./server.sh &

Lucane is loading all necessary applications and will (hopefully) end with the following message:

INFO: Server is ready.

That’s it. How easy can it be?

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