HOWTO: Ubuntu 64bit Install

[dijichi2]

Hi

I was interested to have a look at the 5.0beta so I did a quick hack to get it working on my desktop which is running Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy tribe 3 64bit. I have also confirmed this works for Zimbra 4.5.6, and also Ubuntu 6.06LTS 64bit. I can't see any reason it shouldn't work for 6.10 or 7.04 'feisty' either.

Do the whole thing below as root:
sudo su -
I know Ubuntu is often used by 'newbies' but I find it horrendously irritating and patronizing not to be given root shell

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Install Ubuntu 64bit
Setup DNS etc as normal

Download these files, put them in the same directory (eg. /tmp/zimbra-install or something):
Zimbra Installers: Files (Zimbra 5.0.x Ubuntu6 32-bit package)
ActiveState ActivePerl (you want Linux 5.8.8 x86 version, deb packaging, NOT x64 version or 5.10.x version)
32bit OS Libs

If 6.10, 7.x or 8.x release:
cp /etc/lsb-release /etc/prezimbra.lsb-release
change /etc/lsb-release to:
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06
mv /etc/debian_version /etc/prezimbra.debian_version

apt-get install ia32-libs
apt-get install libidn11 curl fetchmail libpcre3 libgmp3c2 libexpat1 libxml2 libstdc++6 libstdc++5 lib32ncurses5
# download zimbra-32bit-libs.tar.gz, should be attached to this post
tar -xzf zimbra-32bit-libs.tar.gz
mv lib32/* /usr/lib32
ldconfig
dpkg --force-architecture -i ActivePerl-5.8.8.......blah.blah....deb

mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.ubuntu
ln -s /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl.activestate
ln -s /usr/bin/perl.activestate /usr/bin/perl

# make sure sh is bash, not dash
ls -l /bin/sh
if: /bin/sh -> bash then ok, otherwise
rm /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

tar xf zcs-5.0.2_GA_1975.UBUNTU6.20080130235804.tgz
cd zcs-5.0.2_GA_1975.UBUNTU6.20080130235804
export LANG='C'
perl -pi -e 's/dpkg -i/dpkg --force-architecture -i/' util/utilfunc.sh
perl -pi -e 's/5.8.7/5.8.8/' util/utilfunc.sh
perl -pi -e 's/libperl/libperl5.8/' util/utilfunc.sh
sh install.sh
# Run through installer as normal. When finished, it starts zimbra, initialises documents, restarts tomcat then says 'Configuration complete - press return to exit'. Press return to get back to root prompt.

# Stop zimbra
/etc/init.d/zimbra stop
# make sure everything has stopped
ps -ef |grep zimbra |grep -v grep
# if anything still running, kill it
kill (pid)
# if it won't die
kill -9 (pid)

# refactor perl paths
perl -pi -e 's#/usr/bin/perl#/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl#' `find /opt/zimbra -type f -exec grep -l '/usr/bin/perl' {} \;`

# put ubuntu perl back
rm /usr/bin/perl
ln -s /usr/bin/perl.ubuntu /usr/bin/perl

# restart zimbra
/etc/init.d/zimbra start

# make sure everything running ok
su - zimbra zmcontrol status

[randall]

Great work around diji...

[dijichi2]

Oh yes I forgot to warn:

THIS IS A HACK, DON'T USE IN NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS, AEROPLANES ETC

[empe]

Thank You very mutch for that post. Solved my problems too.
Instead of

Originally Posted by dijichi2

# refactor perl paths
perl -pi -e 's#/usr/bin/perl#/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl#' `find /opt/zimbra -type f -exec grep -l '/usr/bin/perl' {} \;`

I patched /etc/init.d/zimbra and added two lines ...
Before

case "$1" in

I added

ln -sf /usr/bin/perl.activestate /usr/bin/perl

and after

esac

I switched back with

ln -sf /usr/bin/perl.ubuntu /usr/bin/perl

Seems to run for me without patching all the perl files.
Perhaps someone can post, wether this is an good idea or not
Thanks!
Michael

[dijichi2]

hiya, glad this workaround worked for you, it was fun working it out

i would be interested to see how your amendment works in the long run. generally i would say it's a bad idea, because you can't guarantee perl won't be invoked after the init script is completed. for instance, this means you can't use any zm* scripts to restart selected components of zimbra as anything that depends on perl will barf. refactoring the perl hashbang is a much more reliable (albeit it dirty!) way of doing it.

[empe]

Hi,
Your are absolutely right. But there has not been any need for me to invoke any zm-command since months. It did work for me for the whole time. But as I updated now to 5.0, I exactly went on Your way and I am pretty shure now, that there won't be any issue on invoking zm-commands.
BTW: Hard work to get it run on ubuntu 7.04 64bit, cause the f****** libltd (32bit version) isn't there. May somebody want to put it into the 32bit OS lib tgz? I think this would help anybody on a similar platform.
BTW2: Why is there no support for the quite popular ubuntu 7.xx? It seems to be a very interesting platform.
Have a nice day/zimbra
Michael

[dijichi2]

well fear not, there's a 64bit ubuntu build coming to a zimbra download server near you soon

there is also ubuntu7 targets in the source code, so if zimbra aren't releasing for ubuntu7 yet, they or someone else will at some point (i will if they don't!).

[eombah]

can you give an indication when the 64 bit build for ubuntu will be available?
like in a week or in 3 months or a year?

-- Bart.

[webman]

It looks like the status of Bug #16666 has now changed from Confirmed to 'ASSIGNED'. Anybody got any news/updates on this?

We're itching to migrate to Zimbra on 64bit Ubuntu but really don't want to use dpkg force-architecture/chroot hack.

[Kristaps]

I know Ubuntu is often used by 'newbies' but I find it horrendously irritating and patronizing not to be given root shell

sudo passwd root

set password and you have root account