See also Where the tools and utilities reside.
There are several steps you need to follow to fully configure and
install gnats on your system. You need root access in order
to create a new account for gnats and to install the gnats
utilities. You may need root access on some systems in order to
set up mail aliases and to allow this new account access to
cron and at.
If you are updating an older version of gnats rather than installing from scratch, see Upgrading from older versions.
gnats installation relies on two other freely available software
packages, which should be installed before you go on to configure and
build gnats. These are gnu make and Texinfo
(version 4.2 or higher). Both are available from the gnu FTP site at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
To build and install gnats, you must:
configure, with correct options if the defaults are
unsuitable for your site. See Configuring and compiling the software. Default installation locations are in
Where gnats lives.
mkdb command.
See Setting up the default database.
query-pr, edit-pr, send-pr) on every machine
in your local network. See Installing the user tools.
query-pr, edit-pr and send-pr for their systems.
However, for many sites, setting up a remote access interface to
gnats, such as Gnatsweb is a better solution since this requires
no configuration on the remote side.