If you want to add a user to all of the components in bugzilla, you don’t have to go through the gui. In fact, you can change just about anything in bugzilla by connecting to the database directly and modifying the tables. I find this much faster than repetitively navigating through the web front end. Connect to the database, match up user id’s to user names, figure out which components you want to modify, then update the component_cc table. Step-by-step.

This howto will get bugzilla with ALL of the optional modules installed on Fedora 10. If you just want a barebones bugzilla up and running, you might want to read the whole thing and then just look for the required parts. Otherwise, you can follow me through the install and end up with all the bells and whistles.

The checksetup.pl script will tell you what you’re missing and what you need to install to get bugzilla up and running. But the problem is it pushes you to use perl’s package management to build the perl modules which may or may not work. I think it’s best to use YUM to install and manage all of your packages and not to mix and match both. This will help to avoid conflicting packages and seemingly random complaints of a package missing when it’s not.