Bugzilla Installation on Ubuntu System

Installation checklist

1. Perl 5.8.1 or above – this usually comes with Ubuntu 8.04 or above by default.
2. MySQL Server
3. Apache Web Server 1.3.x or 2.x

Install the required packages

1. For MySQL, do apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

2. For Apache, do apt-get install apache2 apache2-common

3. For Perl Modules, there’s a long list. Do the following

apt-get install libchart-perl perlmagick libgd-gd2-perl
libgd-graph-perl libgd-text-perl libnet-ldap-perl
libtemplate-perl-doc libtemplate-plugin-gd-perl
libappconfig-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libfile-temp-perl
libio-stringy-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-perl libmime-tools-perl
libtemplate-perl libtimedate-perl libemail-send-perl
libemail-mime-perl libemail-mime-modifier-perl libdbd-pg-perl
libauthen-sasl-perl libsoap-lite-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl
libemail-mime-contenttype-perl libemail-mime-encodings-perl
libapache2-mod-perl2

4. Extract the bugzilla tar ball into /var/www directory and rename the directory name to bugzilla
5. Change the ownership of the directory and files to www-data by using
chown www-data /var/www/bugzilla/ -R
6. Go into /var/www/bugzilla and run the following

./checksetup.pl --check-modules 

It will list out all the modules which have been installed and the

On Ubuntu 8.04, an old perl-cgi module is there (version 3.15)
whereas bugzilla 3.2.2 requires 3.21 or above. Do the following to update it

• Download the file CGI.pm-3.42.tar.gz

• The following commands to be used

cd /tmp
tar -zxf CGI.pm-3.42.tar.gz
cd CGI.pm-3.42
perl Makefile.PL       # to configure the file
make                   # to compile the file
make test              # to test if the compilation has been okay
make install           # to install the module CGI version 3.42

optional modules which you can install. Use your own discretion.