Ubuntu 10.04 and Zimbra 6.0.7 NE

[billiton]

The temporary workaround is to downgrade perl to 5.08 from hardy. To accomplish this you need to add hardy deb lines to your sources.list and manually force a downgrade. Then use dpkg to set the package status for the downgraded packgages to "hold". If you dont know how to, use google.

After all is done you should have something along these lines:

~$ dpkg -l |grep perl
ii  libio-string-perl                 1.08-2                          Emulate IO::File interface for in-core strin
hi  liblocale-gettext-perl            1.05-1                          Using libc functions for internationalizatio
hi  libnet-libidn-perl                0.07-1                          Perl bindings for GNU Libidn
ii  libnet-snmp-perl                  5.2.0-3                         Script SNMP connections
hi  libnet-ssleay-perl                1.30-1                          Perl module for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
hi  libperl5.8                        5.8.8-7etch6                    Shared Perl library
hi  libsocket6-perl                   0.19-1                          Perl extensions for IPv6
hi  libterm-readkey-perl              2.30-3                          A perl module for simple terminal control
hi  libtext-charwidth-perl            0.04-4                          get display widths of characters on the term
hi  libtext-iconv-perl                1.4-3                           converts between character sets in Perl
ii  libtext-wrapi18n-perl             0.06-7                          internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap
ii  libtimedate-perl                  1.1900-1                        Time and date functions for Perl
hi  perl                              5.8.8-7etch6                    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
hi  perl-base                         5.8.8-7etch6                    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
hi  perl-modules                      5.8.8-7etch6                    Core Perl modules

Then, start the zimbra install and it should complete without errors.

[phoenix]

The temporary workaround is to downgrade perl to 5.08 from hardy. To accomplish this you need to add hardy deb lines to your sources.list and manually force a downgrade. Then use dpkg to set the package status for the downgraded packgages to "hold".

It is not advisable to do this, as I've mentioned several times this will invalidate your support for NE versions.

[tikal]

Did you even read the instructions on the page you linked to!!??

Visit the download page for Zimbra Open Source Edition and copy the link to the current version of the software for Debian 5 (Lenny) to your clipboard.

You have to use the Debian 5 Zimbra package, NOT Ubuntu 8.04

I followed the same instructions on a clean install of 10.04 with exact precision and now I am running 6.0.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 with no issues. I can't imagine how it would be different for the Network Edition of Zimbra. No perl downgrading necessary.

I only had to address a couple things that was not covered in the instructions:

An important one below-
sudo aptitude install libperl5.10

And because I was importing live mailboxes. ...Fixing my briefcase URL's to point to https Luckily that's my own Forum thread, and I already knew how to fix it.

My suggestion:
1. Re-install Ubuntu 10.04 as I'm sure it's been mucked with too much by now.
2. aptitude update
3. aptitude safe-upgrade
4. Follow the linode instructions to a T and add the command I ran above to your instructions.
5. Make sure if your Ubuntu 10.04 server is 64 bit you get the 64 bit Debian 5 package of ZCS NE.
(When they release an official Ubuntu 10.04 NE package in the near future you will probably just be able to upgrade from this existing install)
6. Have fun!

[jason.rgd]

thanks a ton!! will try it out...

[n4bbq]

Just for kicks, do this.

Edit /etc/lsb-release

Change it from :

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

To :

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS"

Now try to run the zimbra installer again.

If that doesn't work, be sure to change it back to the original and sit tight for a release.

[jason.rgd]

well what works is force installation ... it works well without any errors ... but I need to know how to fix the dns issues... Adding the MX records using bind... Trying to learn that out last few days...

[phoenix]

well what works is force installation ... it works well without any errors ... but I need to know how to fix the dns issues... Adding the MX records using bind... Trying to learn that out last few days...

Details are all over the forums and wiki if you search, you need a Split DNS if you're behind a NAT router.