Help for installation on Debian

[Martin Konold]

Am Sonntag, 19. September 2004 22:43 schrieb Hervé Piedvache:

Hi,

> But I'm a little anxious with the installation system ... I have downloaded
> all the .rpm packages from :
> <http://www.erfrakon.de/projects/kolab/download/kolab-server-2.0/testing/cu
>rrent/SRC/>

Please use instead

 http://www.erfrakon.de/mirrors/ftp.kolab.org/server/development/current/

> ./obmtool kolab

Yes, this is all which is required. Please follow then the instruction on the 
screen.

> and/or personnal installation ... for example Bison, bzip2, clamav etc.
> from Debian, or my personnal installation from Apache ...
> Does this installation system will erase my debian package ???

No!

> What will happend exactly with those RPMs?

They will be installed in a separate directory (/kolab) and not interfere with 
already installed packages. 

Please make sure that interfering packages like Apache are not running when 
bootstrapping or running Kolab.

> Why there is no .deb files for Kolab installation on Debian ... ?

Please see 

http://kroupware.kolab.org/faq/faq.html#Kolab%20Server4

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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