These instructions were kindly contributed by Jeffrey Buchbinder, the principal architect and developer of FreeMED.

# Debian install instructions; must be root or sudo -s to do this
#
# If you need to ask "why sudo", you should get and install it right now.
# Get basic FreeMED dependencies
apt-get -y install subversion mysql-server-4.1 php4-mysql apache2 \
	libapache2-mod-php4 libxml-parser-perl libtext-iconv-perl \
	djvulibre-bin netpbm imagemagick tetex-bin tetex-extra \
	cupsys cupsys-client gs-common php4-cgi xpdf-utils
cd /usr/share/
svn co http://svn.freemedsoftware.org/freemed/trunk freemed
svn co http://svn.freemedsoftware.org/remitt/trunk remitt
chown -Rf www-data:www-data freemed
# Remove the AddModule line from /etc/apache2/conf.d/freemed.apache.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# Get remitt dependencies and install
apt-get -y install $(cat /usr/share/remitt/debian/control | grep ^Depends | awk -F'},' '{ print $2; }' | sed -e 's/,/ /g;')

cd /etc/init.d/
ln -s /usr/share/remitt/debian/init.d remitt )
update-rc.d remitt defaults
#Then:
/etc/init.d/remitt start
# You should see Starting REMITT Medical Billing Service: remitt.

cd /usr/share/remitt
./bin/sqlite_user_admin.pl create remitt_username remitt_password
# It's pretty arbitrary. Just make a username and password, then enter the same one in FreeMED under REMITT in System Configuration.
# Then configure inside FreeMED to be able to use the remitt server.
#then as a regular user (not root) type
mysql -uroot
#When you get to the prompt, type:
GRANT ALL ON freemed.* TO arbitrary_user_name@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'your_database_password';
#Do not remove the 'and ' and the ; in the previous sentence 
# Then type:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
#Don't forget the semicolon
#you should see:
#Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec) or something like it
#now type:
EXIT
# Now configure FreeMED to use those
cd /usr/share/freemed
vi lib/settings.php
#change define ('DB_USER', "root"); to define ('DB_USER', "user you set in GRANT");
#and: 
#change define ('DB_PASSWORD', ""); to ('DB_PASSWORD', "password you set in GRANT"); 

#Then go to http://localhost/freemed and enter the mysql password and choose the FreeMED admin password and verify it.
#That should do it