Perl 5.8.8 Blues = No Zimbra Upgrade ?

[BrasilNut]

Ran recommended updates to the OS.

Went to upgrade Zimbra

Zimbra 5.0.2 specifically wants Perl 5.8.7 on the host OS.
How was I to know?

Am currently running 5.0 and would like to move forward.

Research seems to show that there is NO PRACTICAL WAY of downgrading Perl.

Before I give up on Zimbra - Which I like MUCH more than Scalix
Does anyone have any ideas.

I promise - if I get this fixed - I'll NEVER run/apply any future updates to any OS.

Sorry to sound frustrated - but I am

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,
See this post: /forums/installation/14144-solved-centos-not-supported-4.html#post72812
& this post: /forums/installation/14996-centos4-issue-fixed-5-0-2-a.html#post76211

[BrasilNut]

Mike,

I appreciate your repsonse.

However with Ubuntu 7.10 - I do not have the luxury of YUM or RPM.

I am stuck with apt-get and Synaptic Package Mangler
which BOTH do NOT allow me to ignore dependencies upon uninstalling something.

*** I wish I could understand why the Zimbra package installation is so picky about the version of PERL. ***

The second posting also has me totally lost - Scalar::Util
Where does one get this?

Sorry to sound so negative - but I have to ask why?

[BrasilNut]

Also - before everybody beats me up about using
Ubuntu v7.1:

here is an observation

I looked through the list of (Zimbra) support distros
and noticed that they seem obsolete...

For example:
SLES 10
it is now SLES 10 SP1 - if you go to obtain it

How do I know if I am not going to run into the same problem with
SLES 10 SP1

How does one find the original SLES 10 ?

[quanah]

You'll note the packages for Ubuntu are for their LTS == Long Term Support release. Which would be 6.01, not 7.anything. The warning about perl is exactly that -- A warning. You are perfectly free to try and install it and see if it works. If you do hit problems with the perl modules, you can probably work around it if you try hard enough. However, by choosing to run on an unsupported platform, you are taking certain risks. SLES10 vs SLES10 SP1 is not the same as Ubuntu6.01 vs Ubuntu7.x. SP1 is an update, Ubuntu7 is an entirely different release.

--Quanah

[BrasilNut]

No problem.

I will reload the machine with
Ubuntu 6.01.1 LTS x86
and will NOT allow it to update itself.

Sad part is, that the machine has a amd64 CPU...

I will post an update, once I have reached success with v5.0.2

[BrasilNut]

Hello all...

Well I bit the bullet and loaded the 32bit version of Ubuntu 6.01.1 LTS
and the Zimbra install completed successfully.

For the record - will there be any 64bit "Open" distributions supported?

RHEL & SLES 64bit editions are not practical $$$ for an Open Source Non-Profit/Personal implementation...

[phoenix]

You can use CentOS 64 bit for the Open Source version of Zimbra, and check this bug entry.