As we read on the official website of the project, Interchange is a suite consisting of a server application and a framework for extra components dedicated to the provision of electronic commerce services on a professional level. This is one of the oldest and most well-supported open source projects ever built.

Personal experience (I use it since 1999) I can say that Interchange is really the best ecommerce application available today. Sure, it requires a thorough competence is from the point of view that 'system development: from the beginning the choice of Interchange Development Group (the development team of Interchange) has been to create a seamless integration between UNIX / Linux and the web interface. For this reason, putting his hand to this program is never easy, but always allows to achieve extraordinary results. Who decides to try it to know that the prerequisite is good knowledge of PERL , MySQL and Apache .

That said, here's how to install packages on a server Interchange Debian GNU / Linux 4.0 (Etch):

  1. Update the file / etc / apt / sources.list by adding the official repository provided by Interchange Development Group:
    deb http://ftp.icdevgroup.org/interchange/debian interchange main
    deb-src http://ftp.icdevgroup.org/interchange/debian interchange main
  2. Update the sources apt-get:
    # apt-get update
  3. Proceed with the installation via apt-get software and its dependencies:
    # apt-get install interchange interchange-cat-standard interchange-ui

This is it. Now that Interchange is installed on our servers do is create our first online store with the command:

# makecat

Answering questions from the input control will achieve our first catalog of products. For comprehensive management of the program and for the customization of code templates and graphics, see the official documentation of Interchange . Try it: it's worth it!

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