Error when installing ZCS 6.0.12 on Ubuntu 10.10 LTS

[MartBrooks]

Hi

I'm building a standalone Zimbra server for upgrade path testing.

root@notzimbra:/tmp/zcs-6.0.12_GA_2883.UBUNTU10_64.20110306010949/packages# dpkg -i zimbra-core_6.0.12_GA_2883.UBUNTU10_64_amd64.deb
dpkg: error processing zimbra-core_6.0.12_GA_2883.UBUNTU10_64_amd64.deb (--install):
parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'zimbra-core':
error in Version string '6.0.12_GA_2883.UBUNTU10_64': invalid character in version number

I'm aware that 10.10 isn't actually supported, but I wondered if this error was an artefact of that or a more fundamental problem with the released package.

There are no Google hits for that error message. Any ideas?

Thanks

Martin.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by MartBrooks

I'm aware that 10.10 isn't actually supported, but I wondered if this error was an artefact of that....

Quite likely.

Originally Posted by MartBrooks

...or a more fundamental problem with the released package.

There should be no problem installing it on the correct version of Ubuntu.

[MartBrooks]

Turns out this is a problem with a later version of dpkg being strict(er) about use of certain characters. See:

[SOLVED] Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Ubuntu 10.10

Downgrading dpkg works.