Smooth install of Zimbra in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

[martinfst]

Just to give another heads-up feedback, I wanted to let you know I installed Zimbra 4.04 (OpenSource version) rather easy on Ubuntu 6.10 yesterday.

I did encounter the LDAP error, mentioned several times in this forum, and I got that solved by the hints given in the wiki pages:

http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=LDAP

LDAP startup ... FAILED (256) on UBUNTU, I solved my problems with 2 changes:

1 UBUNTU by default symlinks /bin/sh to /bin/dash which does not support the 'source' command.

To fix
rm /bin/sh
ln -s bash /bin/sh

2 UBUNTU Server distro does not have a Java runtime, the certification startup

The zimbra installer requires the java runtime in the /jre directory.
Zimbra has a JRE available so simply a second symlink will solve the problem
To fix:
ln -s /opt/zimbra/jdk1.5.0_08/jre /jre

[edit]

The other two issues I had were

1. manually stopping and starting the Zimbra suite showed an error during the startup of the spell module. It appeared the expat1 library was not installed. Using apt-get to install that piece of standard software fixed this. Should have been mentioned in one of the install guides though.
2. Like others on this forum, I failed to see the statistics images. Again, some modules were missing, namely DBI and DBD::MySQL. apt-get these libraries, and now I also see the graphics.

FYI, I installed Zimbra on a VERY lightweight server, a Pentium 1,6Gh with only 256M memory and a 80Gb ATA harddisk. Not for production, but just for test and I'm surprised by the fact that I don't have much swapping going on. The whole suite seems to fit in this tiny setup and the performance (single user, I admit) is very acceptable.

So far, I have only one suggestion to enhance this product to be the Exch... killer: make the calendar function work with email clients like Evolution with CalDav or similar. Having a web based full client is great, integration with other clients would be superb. I've seen it's on the roadmap, and I already gave my vote to this feature request, but really guys, this would really rock Zimbra. Anyhow, I hope I'll be able to do some projects with Zimbra in the near future.

Warm regards, Martin

[hkgonra]

Good job.
I am still patiently waiting for apt-get install zimbra.

[rdjurovich]

I too, am eagerly awaiting for apt-get install zimbra, mainly because of the fact that zimbra will be updated using apt-get update/upgrade.
Still, I am going to switch to it as soon as the Ubuntu version comes out of beta, because I desperately need to get away from our currently lacking mailserver.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by rdjurovich

Still, I am going to switch to it as soon as the Ubuntu version comes out of beta, because I desperately need to get away from our currently lacking mailserver.

just to let you know the Ubuntu version has now gone GA, you can download it from sourceforge.

[rdjurovich]

Thanks bill - I have been using Zimbra OS since the GA and have been enjoying every moment of it.

[spinaltoad]

I had the same problem using Ubuntu 6.06. I followed the above directions but still got the problem. I was able to resolve the problem. I think the answer was to have ldap bind to the local port by changing some of the DNS settings. Here are the settings I used.


I changed my hostname from
mail.example.com --> mail

/etc/hostname
mail

I then changed my hosts file
127.0.0.1 mail.localdomain --> 127.0.0.1 mail.example.com

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mail.example.com mail
10.0.1.60 mail.example.com mail

I installed bind9 and configured DNS for internal lookups only.
bind host file
/etc/bind/example.com.hosts
$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA ns1.example. root.example.com. (
2006020203
604800
86400
2419200
604800 )

@ IN NS ns1
IN MX 10 mail
mail IN MX 10 mail
mail.example.com. A 10.0.1.160
IN A 10.0.1.160
ns1 IN A 10.0.1.160
mail IN A 10.0.1.160
www IN A 10.0.1.160



The I edited rc.conf to only use BIND for address look ups
/etc/resolve.conf
search home
nameserver 127.0.0.1
lookup bind

[phoenix]

I'm afraid those settings are all wrong, your system may work but it's quite likely to cause you problems.

[dijichi2]

Hi spinaltoad

I'd be very interested to see how you get on, can you give a report sometime to let us know?

In theory this should work however the zimbra networking setup is quite specific, the way things bind, which I guess is probably due to cluster/multiserver ability.

Also check your nsswitch.conf for resolution order, if you rely on resolv.conf you will get unexpected results.

[dzenhax]

Hi Guys,

I have a different Ubuntu problem. This is a fresh install on a Feisty Ubuntu system. I have installed all the prerequisites according to this forum and an article at www.howtoforge.com

When I start the install.sh I get:

Checking for prerequisites...
NPTL...FOUND
sudo...MISSING
libidn...MISSING
curl...MISSING
fetchmail...MISSING
gmp...MISSING
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5...FOUND

###ERROR###

One or more prerequisite packages are missing.
Please install them before running this installer.

Installation cancelled.

But the packages are on my system.

Reading state information... Done
sudo is already the newest version.

Reading state information... Done
curl is already the newest version.

Reading state information... Done
fetchmail is already the newest version.

And so on. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this? I mostly built this server just to try out Zimbra, so I'd love it to work.

[dijichi2]

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