How to install Collabtive on Ubuntu

To install collabtive on Ubuntu:

1. sudo apt-get install mysql-server phpmyadmin collabtive

2. I do not care about the security and set the passwords empty.
3. This will install collabtive that will be accessed through http://127.0.0.1/collabtive
4. Try now to access it. If the screen is completely white, it probably means the apache thread is not allowed to read/write collabtive
5. In order to verify it, read /var/log/apache2/error.log If you get such message:

   [Thu Mar 29 02:18:51 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  
   Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/var/cache/collabtive/templates_c'. 
   Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. 
   in /usr/share/php/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1093
   

   That means you have to provide access:

   sudo chown -R www-data /var/cache/collabtive/templates_c/ 
   

   sudo chown -R www-data /usr/share/collabtive/www 

   sudo chown www-data /etc/collabtive/config.php 

   sudo chmod +w /etc/collabtive/config.php 

6. Create the database:

   sudo mysql

   and create the database you want:

   create database collabtive

7. Now, you should be able to access and configure collabtive http://127.0.0.1/collabtive/install.php