Installation on Debian Lenny

[abel76]

How to install Zimbra 5.0.6 GA Release, on a Debian Lenny?

I tried but there were many errors.
First the installer told me: "Error: attempting to install i386 packages on a unknown OS"

so I changed the /etc/debian_version from lenny/sid to 4.0

This error never represented, but now I have this warning:

perl-5.8.8...Unable to find expected perl-5.8.8. Found version 5.10.0-10 instead

and during the installation, this error:

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

There is a way to configure Zimbra in lenny? The previous version of Zimbra (4.5) works with lenny?
Thanks in advance for your reply

[dijichi2]

Highly unlikely it will work, given the major upgrades in lenny. 4.5 certainly wouldn't work. Use an existing stable version of debian/ubuntu, or roll your own from source.

[alvarod]

Hi dijichi2,

Here is some hints about the install on debian lenny. Please notice that to install Zimbra and get it working you should have a DNS system, that could be at the same host as Zimbra. Also, you probably will have some Bind9 issues, c'ause you have to downgrade Perl and it requires a new version of Perl in order to get running.

Instead of just change the "debian_version" from 5 to 4, you should perform a Perl downgrade:

vim /etc/debian_version

wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool...7etch6_all.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool...etch6_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool...etch6_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool...etch6_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....20-8_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....19-1_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....30-3_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....05-1_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool...1.4-3_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....04-4_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....30-1_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool....07-1_i386.deb


dpkg -i perl-modules_5.8.8-7etch6_all.deb perl-base_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb
perl_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch6_i386.deb
libdb4.4_4.4.20-8_i386.deb libsocket6-perl_0.19-1_i386.deb
libterm-readkey-perl_2.30-3_i386.deb liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-1_i386.deb
libtext-iconv-perl_1.4-3_i386.deb libtext-charwidth-perl_0.04-4_i386.deb
libnet-ssleay-perl_1.30-1_i386.deb libnet-libidn-perl_0.07-1_i386.deb