(ZCS 5.0.10 GA +openSUSE 11) or (ZCS 5.0.10 GA + Ubuntu 8.1) ??

[wcbenyip]

I understand that but want to try a latest OS. BTW, there is another isue about the perl version, not only ubuntu 8.1 default but also the other supported os would probably upgraded their perl 5.8.8 to the latest perl 5.10.0. However, the perl 5.10.0 cause an error like "/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" !! Does there any advise or workaround from Zimbra to fix this version problem ??

[bdial]

the advice/workaround from zimbra would be to use a support os.

[jholder]

ubuntu ftw

[wcbenyip]

OK~ I turn to install the ZCS 5.0.10 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS now~ And everything is working fine so far~ Thanks for the help anyway~ But one issue I think should be bear in mind that, the perl SHOULD NOT upgrade to the latest version and SHOULD keep in perl 5.8.8, otherwise the ZCS would got problem as reported by some existing customers, and the newer installation with Ubuntu 8.1 (default come with latest perl) as well !!!

[vitic]

I have successfully installed Zimbra on Ubutnu 8.10 Intrepid.

I have used the following workarounds:

Find the file ./util/utilfunc.sh in the Zimbra installation directory and replace all references to libltdl3 with libltdl7
If libltdl7 is not installed, do [ apt-get install libltdl7 ]

Go to /usr/lib/
Do [ ln -s libltdl.so libltdl3.so ]

You have to downgrade the Perl binaries. I have used an existing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy installation to download the deb packages. That was the easiest way for me.

Since I don't know which modules Zimbra is using, I downloaded them all:

For each module, I did

[ aptitude download module-name ]

Here is the list:
#################################
libclass-accessor-perl
libclass-methodmaker-perl
libcompress-raw-zlib-perl
libcompress-zlib-perl
libfont-afm-perl
libhtml-format-perl
libhtml-parser-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl
libhtml-template-perl
libhtml-tree-perl
libio-compress-base-perl
libio-compress-zlib-perl
libio-string-perl
liblocale-gettext-perl
libmailtools-perl
libparse-debianchangelog-perl
librpc-xml-perl
libterm-readkey-perl
libtext-charwidth-perl
libtext-iconv-perl
libtext-wrapi18n-perl
libtimedate-perl
liburi-perl
libwww-perl
libxml-namespacesupport-perl
libxml-parser-perl
libxml-sax-expat-perl
libxml-sax-perl
libxml-simple-perl
perl
perl-base
perl-modules
#################################

Copy the modules to your Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid installation.

Do [ mkdir -p /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.d/ ]

and then do:

[ for i in *deb; do dpkg -i $i; done ]

I don't know in which order the modules should be installed so you have to run the command several times to fix broken dependencies. Watch the output carefully. You are done if there are no more errors.
Just in case I ran [ apt-get -f install ] and [ apt-get check ]

You can now run [ install.sh ] in the Zimbra installation directory.
It will warn/complain about the unsupported version of Ubuntu but otherwise it worked fine for me.

You might have problems with packages that only exist in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid and are dependent on Perl 5.10. In my case it was libapparmor-perl. Since I am not using apparmor, it's not a problem for me. Don't know how to go around that though.

Good luck

[dijichi2]

If libltdl7 is not installed, do [ apt-get install libltdl7 ]

Go to /usr/lib/
Do [ ln -s libltdl.so libltdl3.so ]

It is *strongly*recommended not to do this.

[Bachi]

There are a dozen reasons to use the current Ubuntu 8.10 version and not the 1/2 year old 8.04 LTS. One being h/w support, kernel, ... etc.

So: How do we get Zimbra Desktop on the current version without breaking it? Any time plans? Enforcing the world to use 8.04 by now is simply not an option.

Regards - Bachi

[rslrdx]

i'm trying to make zimbra work on a ubuntu 8.10 install, there was only one problem with the install, a lib, which i had to install use the version for 8.04.

the problem i had with 8.04 was hardware... it didnt have support for the raid controller the new dell server uses, so i had to use 8.10 which does. So i think that supporting 8.10 is not a bad idea. since its late in the game (and hours away from 2009) why not skip 8.10 and actually suport 9.04

Oddly enough, fedora 10, newer than ubuntu 8.04 is suported.

[doyles27]

*Sigh* I just accidentally dist-upgraded our 8.04 server to 8.10 (wrong server, don't ask)

Anyway, here's a list of packages I needed to get from the 8.04 repository, and install using dpkg-i before zimbra would start up again.

autotools-dev_20070725.1_all.deb
 libdb4.6_4.6.21-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
 libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
 libdb-dev_4.6.21-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
 libltdl3_1.5.26-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
 libtool_1.5.26-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
 perl_5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4_i386.deb
 perl-base_5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4_i386.deb
 perl-modules_5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4_all.deb

Lesson learned.