Unix system requirements

Before installing FogBugz for Unix, you should run through this checklist to make sure your server has all the required components.

NOTE: If you are planning to install this on a shared Unix host, it will require command-line access and possibly root access unless the host environment already matches all of the listed requirements.  Ask your host provider before installing if they will be amenable to helping you with making the installation work.

Computer

FogBugz for Unix will run on processors built on the x86 architecture, including Intel, AMD and all 100% Intel-compatible processors. Other CPUs will not work. Please contact Fog Creek Software first if you'd like to run FogBugz with any other processor.

We also recommend that the server be provided with at least 2GB of RAM, and at least 10GB of free hard drive space.

Operating System

FogBugz is designed to run on many UNIX/Posix systems, but has not been tested on every version of every platform. The following are known to work:

• Mac OS X versions 10.4 and above
• 32-bit x86 Linux - Ubuntu 6, 8; Redhat Enterprise 5
• 64-bit amd64 Linux - Ubuntu 8 with ia32-libs installed

FogBugz currently ships with several components compiled for 32-bit CPUs. On 64-bit platforms, this may require the installation of 32-bit system libraries.

Other versions of Linux that are binary compatible with these may work, but we have not yet tested them (aside from comments included in the above list). We do offer a 90-day, no questions asked money back guarantee, so if you like, you could buy one license, try installing, and if it does not work, we will issue a refund. However, we cannot currently provide installation support for platforms not on the list of supported platforms.

If your platform is not currently supported, we may be able to compile our FogBugz shared object to that platform if you give us SSH access with permissions to compile. Contact us for further details or to let us know about platforms you'd like us to support in the future.

Not sure what platform you have? Type uname -a at the command prompt.

MySQL Database Server
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To install with MySQL (versions 5.0 and above), you first have to ensure that the MySQL command client is installed and working, and that the MySQL server is running before installing FogBugz.

Not sure if MySQL is running? Type mysql at the command line:

• If you get "command not found," you probably don't have mysql installed, or it might not be in your path.
• If you get "Can't connect to local MySQL server," it's possible you only have the client installed, or it could be that the server (mysqld) is simply not running.
• If you get "Welcome to the MySQL monitor" you're probably in good shape. It should also tell you what version you're running.
• Try typing use test; at the mysql prompt. If you get the message Database changed you are definitely in good shape. Type quit to exit.

For Email Integration

For FogBugz to send email, you need an SMTP server. If you have the ability to send Internet email, you probably already have one of these somewhere.

For FogBugz to receive incoming mail, you need a POP3 server. FogBugz supports plain POP3 and secure (ssh-based) POP3. Almost all email servers support POP3.

For Source Code Control Integration

We support integration with Mercurial, Perforce, CVS, Subversion, Visual SourceSafe, and Vault. Other source code control systems may work if they support some form of triggers and have a web interface. More info.