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--- navdownload [2012/09/28 11:51] – [Latest version] morten
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 NAV is [[PostCard|freely]] available under the GNU GPLv2 license.
-===== Latest version =====
-**The latest stable version of NAV is 3.12.1**.
 ===== Smoothest install =====
-We recommend the [[http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/|Debian package]]. The package is currently the most comrehensive as it takes care of all dependencies. It also includes a short and well documented cook book of things you need to do after installation. Your procedure will be this;
+We recommend the [[nav_on_debian|Debian package]]. The package is currently the most comprehensive as it takes care of all dependencies. It also includes a short and well documented cook book of things you need to do after installation. Your procedure will be this:
    - Install [[http://www.debian.org/|Debian]]
-   - ''aptitude install nav'' (first add a line to your ''sources.list'', see [[http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/|the package doc]]).
+   - Follow the instructions on the [[nav_on_debian]] page.
-   - Follow the ''/usr/share/doc/nav/README.Debian'' cookbook
+   - Read our [[https://nav.uninett.no/doc/4.0/intro/getting-started.html|Getting Started guide]].
-   - Jump to step 2 in our [[gettingstarted|Getting Started guide]]
 ===== Optional installs =====
-In principle, NAV can run on any Unix-like platform, as long as Apache, Python and Java are supported.
+In principle, NAV can run on any Unix-like platform, as long as Apache and Python are supported.
   * See [[NAVInstallation|installation instructions for the latest version]]
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 ===== Binary/distribution packages =====
-  * Debian GNU/Linux:\\ NAV is available as a [[http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/|package for Debian Lenny]] from the pkg-nav Alioth project.
+  * Debian GNU/Linux:\\ We package the latest NAV for the current stable version of Debian. [[nav_on_debian|Follow the instructions here]].
-  * RHEL/CentOS:\\ RPMs for RHEL/CentOS is available at [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=107608|SourceForge]].\\ Contributed by Alexander Krapivin, OILspace, Inc., UK. \\ Latest version is 3.2.2.
-  * SuSE (Linux Enterprise Server) (also suitable for RedHat 9):\\ NTNU used to maintain an RPM package for SLES, but it is unknown what the status of this work is at this time.  Alexander Krapivin's CentOS package should be equally useful for SLES/SUSE.
 ===== Virtual appliance =====
-NAV 3.8.3 has been packaged as a virtual appliance using VMWare/OVF.  This can be used as a base for kick-starting a NAV service on a virtual infrastructure, or just for testing/evaluation purposes.  See the [[navappliance]] page for more information or [[http://nav.uninett.no/static/nav-lenny-appliance/|download the appliance directly]].
+NAV has been pre-packaged as a virtual appliance in OVF format.  This can be used as a base for kick-starting a NAV service on a virtual infrastructure, or just for testing/evaluation purposes. [[navappliance|See the navappliance page for more information]].
 ===== Getting a development version =====
-NAV has recently switched from Subversion to the
+NAV uses [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial|Mercurial]] as its version control system. The //default// (trunk) and //stable// branches can be accessed at https://nav.uninett.no/hg/ .
-decentralized [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial|Mercurial version
-control software]].  There exists several development branches, which
-can be found on the web here: http://nav.uninett.no/hg/ .
 If your OS doesn't provide a prepackaged Mercurial client, you can
 download the client here:
-http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Download . To clone
+[[http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download]].
-(checkout) the default NAV branch using Mercurial:
+To clone (checkout) the default NAV branch using Mercurial:
 <code>
-hg clone http://nav.uninett.no/hg/default/ nav-default
+hg clone https://nav.uninett.no/hg/default/ nav-default
 </code>
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 <code>
-aclocal
+./autogen.sh
-autoconf
 </code>
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-===== Contributions to NAV=====
-  * UiT has made a **windows machine name collector** (collects netbios name). A table containing IP addresses and netbios names is maintained. Scheduled for NAV 3.6 contrib.
-  * UiT has also made expansions to the NAV service monitor. This includes a **radius monitor**.
-  * UiT has made the radius tool in NAV
-  * UiT has reimplemented MailIn in Python
-===== NAV third party solutions =====
-  * [[http://drift.uninett.no/~andreas/mailin/|MailIn]]: Andreas Solberg, UNINETT, has made a third party solution that interprets incoming email from external systems and posts events on the NAV event queue.