Anyone want to mambo?

I am working on a side gig that has me implementing Mambo CMS and OpenRealty on a FreeBSD box. After 4-5 test installs, I'd thought I'd make some notes for myself in case I would need to reinstall again (in this order).

Mambo
1. One of the problems I initially had was untarring the tar file

--the installation said to:
tar -xvfz latest_mambo_version.tar.gz


--I had to add one additional line if a file ends in .tar.gz (e.g. file.tar.gz) type:
gzip -d latest_mambo_version.tar.gz
and then
tar -xvf latest_mambo_version.tar


2. I did both the manual and browser install. Manual was definitely a lot more tedious (I really don't recommend it). The problem I initially came across was the manual installation said to:
"Copy the file configuration.php-dist to configuration.php in the root of your mambo directory".. DO NOT RENAME. Once you are done, you will simply copy the necessary code Mambo provides for you and create a configuration.php.

Other than those two problems, installing Mambo was pretty straight forward.

Open Realty -
If you follow everything on this page, you will have a working installation.

CMS Realty Core Component - this is the component that integrates the Open-Realty listings management software with Mambo

>> When uninstalling, use Mambo to uninstall the component. Don't be a newbie like me and delete the files manually. For some reason due to permission problems, I was not able to delete all the files... very messy

Mambo and Open Realty are installed with generic templates. The next item is to develop new templates...