Issues when installing GNUmed in a GNU/Linux distribution

Debian

Current

Some of the Gnome "Theme Buttons" (Nuovola , Wasp , Lush and Amaranth) have been found to create problems in the display of GNUmed elements for example the headings of tabbed Notelets in the SOAP editor plugin. Also under Gnome and KDE the login button to "Connect" to the designated database must be clicked with the mouse because, despite that it is supposed to be a default button, is not confirmable from the keyboard.

Testing (Squeeze)

As at July 29, 2009 Debian Testing (Squeeze) may need to be installed WITHOUT Database Server enabled (the installation WITH this option enabled is bugged and PostgreSQL does not start any cluster at boot... apparently caused by a bug in udev... two existing bugs track: the problem

• #517389 (udev)
• #533528 (debian-installer).

Etch

• Postgresql database clusters sometimes are created with a non-utf-8 locale. This will fail the database creation (bootstrap) process. You might get something like this:

      2008-03-30 20:28:45  [PANIC]  (./bootstrap_gm_db_system.py:__create_db@701):  >>>[
                               create database "gnumed_v2" with
                                       owner = "gm-dbo"
                                       template = "template1"
                                       encoding = 'unicode'
                               ;]<<< failed
      2008-03-30 20:28:45  [PANIC]  (./bootstrap_gm_db_system.py:__create_db@701):  exception type : psycopg2.ProgrammingError
      2008-03-30 20:28:45  [PANIC]  (./bootstrap_gm_db_system.py:__create_db@701):  exception value:  Encoding UTF8 stimmt nicht mit 
                                                  der Server-Locale de_DE@euro ??berein
                                                  DETAIL:  Die LC_TYPE-Locale des Servers verlangt die Kodierung LATIN9.

A proposed fix is to convert the system to utf-8 like this: