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Mantis - a php based bugtracking system
Copyright (C) 2000-2002  Kenzaburo Ito - kenito@300baud.org
Copyright (C) 2002-2008  Mantis Team   - mantisbt-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
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INSTALLATION

The following details the basic steps for installation on any system.  The
instructions may seem unix-centric but should work fine on Windows systems.

Barring complications, it should take you about 10-20 minutes to install,
configure, and be using Mantis.

These instructions are available at:
http://manual.mantisbt.org/manual.installation.php

# --- Requirements ----------

* MySQL 4.1.1 and higher
* PHP 4.3.0 and higher
* a webserver

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### Upgrading ###
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These instructions are available at:
http://manual.mantisbt.org/manual.installation.upgrading.php

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### Troubleshooting ###
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See TROUBLESHOOTING

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### Useful links ###
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http://www.php.net/        -  excellent documentation.
http://www.phpwizard.net/  -  an excellent web front end to mysql.
http://www.phpbuilder.net/ -  good help forums.
http://www.mysql.com/      -  good documentation.
http://www.apache.org/     -  you should be able to find what you need.
