You installed Request Tracker 3.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 using apt-get, aptitude, or synaptic, and then you needed RT::Authen::ExternalAuth.

What you naturally did is:

sudo cpan -i RT::Authen::ExternalAuth

But you will get the following error:

prerequisite RT 0 not found

This is because you did not install request-tracker through CPAN.

An easy solution for this is to force the installation using the "-f" flag:

sudo cpan -fi RT::Authen::ExternalAuth

Introduction

In this post I will show how to create a simple approval queue in Request Tracker 3.8.

The General queue will be used as the approval queue.

Here are the different entities (groups) we will create:

• Submitters: they can submit new tickets only to the General Queue.
• Approvers: they can approve tickets (move them from the general queue to another queue)

I will also show how to add a new dashlet ("RT at a glance") containing all the tickets the user created ("My issues").

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