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

[wcbenyip]

Hi,

I am going to deploy another copy of ZCS for the new group of PCs, I used to follow the (ZCS 5+openSUSE 10.3 guides) during the installation before~ But now, up to this moment, some latest distribution are come out and the latest ZCS version is 5.0.10 GA, which is different with my current using version.

So, I just want to ask that, does there anyone tried to install the ZCS 5.0.10 GA on the latest stable version openSUSE 11? Is it the same procedures as like 10.3 ? Also, the another distribution - Ubuntu is nice as well, anyone tried to install the ZCS 5 on Ubuntu even the latest version Ubuntu 8.1? I would like to collect more opinion and advise before my work, many thanks for any input !!!

[bdial]

zimbra will not run on opensuse11. theres an issue with the perl I think I can't remember from the last time I tried it.

[wcbenyip]

Oh... thanks for your rapid reply~ That means, I should better go for openSUSE 10.3 instead of openSUSE 11 and Ubuntu, right?

[Klug]

If you want to go with Ubuntu, you should go the LTS way.
It works flawlessly and is Long Term Supported.

[bdial]

Yeah plus I think opensuse support is being discontinued.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by bdial

Yeah plus I think opensuse support is being discontinued.

That's correct.

[wcbenyip]

openSUSE would no longer support? Then how's our existing ZCS on openSUSE platform? Should we change it to Ubuntu 7.04 LTS + ZCS 5.0.10 ? Does this combination is proved OK and stable?

[phoenix]

From the next major release of Zimbra, openSUSE will be EOL. Now would be the appropriate time for planning a migration. If you're serious about running a stable mail server then you'd be far better on an LTS o/s such as RHEL (or CentOS for the OSS Zimbra) or Ubuntu.

[wcbenyip]

Hi,

I just tried to install the zcs 5.0.10GA on Ubuntu 8.1, and found that below error shown when I use 'tar -xzvf' for the ZCS tgz file -

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1

It's the same result whatever combination I tried, anyone know what's wrong with it?? Please help !!! Many thanks~

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by wcbenyip

It's the same result whatever combination I tried, anyone know what's wrong with it?? Please help !!! Many thanks~

There's nothing wrong with the download files, however if you are using any download manager for the download then disable it and try again.

One of the problems here is that you're going to be installing on an unsupported operating system, the currently supported version of Ubuntu are on this page: Open Source Edition Downloads: Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration Software by Zimbra i.e. use either the 6.0.6 LTS or 8.0.4 LTS version of Ubuntu.