Installing Zimbra On Fedora Core 6

[DanielGE]

Please Write Full HOWTO install zimbra on Fedora Core 6.


Thanks.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by DanielGE

Please Write Full HOWTO install zimbra on Fedora Core 6.

FC6 isn't a supported package but you could always contribute to the how-to yourself or search the forums.

[jholder]

Hi-
We defenetly plan on adding Fedora Core 6. We try to only keep two FC versions out at the same time, so we will probably fade out FC 4 support when we fade in FC6 support.

The problem is that *MANY* users use FC4.

[ricknight]

I just completed installing on Fedora Core 6 and it was fairly painless using the quick install guide.

Points to look for;
- make sure the /etc/hosts file doesn't have IPV6 info for localhost
- make sure the /etc/sudoers does not restrict to TTY only

otherwise it worked fine.

Cheers
Ric

[marcomas]

Zimbra require 10GB free disk space for software and logs (you can't install zimbra if it found less than 6GB for /opt/zimbra. Error message appear).

Installation on Fedora 6:

- Create partitions, manual suggest a /boot partition (100MB), a swap partition set to twice the size of the ram and a / partition set with remaining disk space size (I suggest 10 or more GB)

- Network configuration:
specify the fully qualified hostname -> yourservername.yourdomain.com
I choose to uncheck ipv6

- Type of installation: I choose WEB Server, anyway you don't need to install mysql, tomcat, ldap. Zimbra installs in /opt/zimbra its ldap, mysql, ....
You only needs named for dns resolution.

After reboot:

- Disable Firewall and SELinux

- From terminal install this package. You find it on your installation dvd/cd

# rpm -Uivh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

- From terminal:

# chkconfig sendmail off
# service sendmail stop
# service postfix stop
# chkconfig postfix off

- Edit /etc/host, it should look like:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ...
::1 yourservername.yourdomain.com ...

- Edit /etc/sudoers and comment the line: Defaults requiretty
Should look: # Defaults requiretty
(Well I need to understand better this option function)

- Configure DNS see [SOLVED] DNS in a nutshell

- Copy zcs-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5.tgz to /root or another folder.

- Untar:
#tar -zxvf /root/zcs-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5.tgz

- cd /root/zcs/install.sh

- Answer questions

- At "Main Menu"
Select 1) and change Hostname -> yourserverhostname.yourdomain.com

select 6) and 4) and change admin password

If you are installing opensource edition you don't need to specify license

type r) type a) and save configuration and go on.

If installation complete succesfully, open your browser and go to https://youripaddress:7071/zimbraAdmin and configure mail account

from terminal to see if everything is up and running:
# su - zimbra
# zmcontrol status

If something goes wrong go to zcs folder and uninstall zimbra -> run install.sh -u then remove zcs and untar again zimbra package and reinstall

I hope these lines help

[chunkybacon]

Originally Posted by wannabetenor

Hi-
We defenetly plan on adding Fedora Core 6.

Any idea when this might occur? I'm currently trying to install Zimbra on a FC6 box and it's failing right up front.

[jholder]

No.
You're more than welcome to file an enhancement, and you can track it.

What's it saying when it fails?

[chunkybacon]

Originally Posted by wannabetenor

No.
You're more than welcome to file an enhancement, and you can track it.

What's it saying when it fails?

...after going thru the first part:

You appear to be installing packages on a platform different
than the platform for which they were built

This platform is UNKNOWN
Packages found: zimbra-core-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5-20070201184655.i386.rpm
This may or may not work


Install anyway? [N] y

The system will be modified. Continue? [N] y

Removing /opt/zimbra
Installing packages

zimbra-core......zimbra-core-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5-20070201184655.i386.rpm...FAILED
###ERROR###

zimbra-core-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5-20070201184655.i386.rpm installation failed

Installation cancelled

The install log file says:

Preparing packages for installation...
error: %pre(zimbra-core-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5-20070201184655.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 12
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping zimbra-core-4.5.1_GA_660.FC5-20070201184655

[dlbewley]

If you look in util/utilfunc.sh you'll find that there is a check for your FC release and 6 isn't there. Hack that up.

See also
http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13632
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?tit...tform_Specific

[marcomas]

I've had this error too.

Reboot

Uninstall your installation:

# cd yourzcsdirectory
# ./uninstall -u

Remove /opt/zimbra and your zcs folder

# rm -fr /opt/zimbra
# rm -fr /.../zcs

Untar again your rpm package (please check its integrity)
# tar zxvf zcs....rpm

And reinstall