ETA for Intrepid Ibex

[pebcomputing]

Is there any plan to release an Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) package any time soon? If so, any idea on eta?

[Klug]

Why not staying with the LTS version ???

[mmorse]

We build for Long-Term-Support versions - current being 6.06 & 8.04.

However, you can realistically run other versions (but you shouldn't if NE) - for instance many ran on 7.04 & 7.10 by adjusting the /etc/lsb-release, /etc/debian_version, util/utilfunc.sh, and bin/get_plat_tag.sh of the installer etc.
("DISTRIB_RELEASE=8" of /etc/lsb-release)

If your using FOSS & absolutely have some hardware that won't run in 8.04 or something (ie: Klug's question): For 8.10 you'll probably just need to run ./install.sh --platform-override as I do for running some 6.06 builds on 6.10. (I haven't played with 8.10 yet as it offers nothing new that I criticially need.)

Look at this chart - 8.04 is still supported for 3 years after 8.10:
6.06 LTS Dapper Drake Released: 2006-06-01 Supported Until: 2009-05-01 (desktops) / 2011-05-01 (servers)
6.10 Edgy Eft Released: 2006-10-26 Supported Until: 2008-04-25
7.04 Feisty Fawn Released: 2007-04-19 Supported Until: 2008-10-19
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Released: 2007-10-18 Supported Until: 2009-04-01
8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Released: 2008-04-24 Supported Until: 2011-04-01 (desktops) /2013-04-01 (servers)
8.10 Intrepid Ibex Released: 2008-10-30 Supported Until: 2010-04-01
9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Release Target: 2009-04-23 Supported Until Estimate: 2010-10-01

Perl issues:

Originally Posted by elcorazon

Hi,
I got Zimbra to run in Ubuntu 8.10 after installing some old Perl packages:

• liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• libperl5.8_5.8.8-12_amd64.deb
• perl_5.8.8-12_amd64.deb
• perl-base_5.8.8-12_amd64.deb
• perl-modules_5.8.8-12_all.deb
• libterm-readkey-perl_2.30-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Those packages can be found on launchpad.net

Only problem left are some unresolved dependencies when I try to update the system now... working on that...

I wonder if one could replace the Zimbra-Version of amavisd with some current version to work around the problem..?

[pebcomputing]

I'm a linux admin and do-it-yourselfer... o/s support is not usually an issue for me. The only reason I am seeking to install zimbra on Ubuntu at all (rather than debian, my preferred distro) is that zimbra has a 64 bit release for Ubuntu, but not debian.

So, my first preference is to run zimbra 64bit on debian lenny (or I would happily settle for etch if need be). My next choice would be zimbra 64 on Ubuntu current (ie. 8.10/Ibex), and lastly on Ubuntu 8.04.

I attempted to install zimbra on Ubuntu 8.10, however it threw perl errors, which is not a good start.

[pebcomputing]

Originally Posted by pebcomputing

I attempted to install zimbra on Ubuntu 8.10, however it threw perl errors, which is not a good start.

Namely, I had to dpkg -i --force-depends libperl5.8 and then zimbra install gives the following:

Installing:
    zimbra-core
    zimbra-ldap
    zimbra-logger
    zimbra-mta
    zimbra-snmp
    zimbra-store
    zimbra-apache
    zimbra-spell
    zimbra-proxy

The system will be modified.  Continue? [N] y

Removing /opt/zimbra
Installing packages

    zimbra-core......zimbra-core_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-ldap......zimbra-ldap_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-logger......zimbra-logger_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-mta......zimbra-mta_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-snmp......zimbra-snmp_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-store......zimbra-store_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-apache......zimbra-apache_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-spell......zimbra-spell_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
    zimbra-proxy......zimbra-proxy_5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64_amd64.deb...done
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

and, of course, even if zimbra *did* install cleanly, I'm still stuck with:

root@pebbook:/usr/local/archive/zcs-5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64.20081003052844# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libperl5.8: Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.8-12) but 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
root@pebbook:/usr/local/archive/zcs-5.0.10_GA_2638.UBUNTU8_64.20081003052844# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libperl5.8
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 24.6kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.