Better (easier) way to install kolab on Fedora Core Systems??

[Richard Bos]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:07:42AM +0200, Wolfgang Schleicher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> concerning the official kolab screenshots, Kolab seems to be an interesting alternative to open-xchange without its pseudo ms exchange attributes.
> 
> I?ve tested current open-xchange and I?m not satisifed with that kind of open source groupware (missing samba integration, missing admin webfronted, poor email frontend, ...) Nevertheless, I like the attempt to set up a groupware on open source standard components. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I`ve no luck trying to install kolab server (2.04, 2.1beta2) on a fedora core 5/6test system.
> 
> Is it possible to integrate kolab in a already running ldap environment (samba pdc) or can kolab only be set up on a fresh (debian or whatever) based openpkg system???
> 
> I don?t see the advantage of packaging kolab with openpkg. Still after a few days I`m unable to install openpkg on my fedora system. 
> 
> Additionally, I don?t like the idea to setup kolab on a dedicated (maybe xen based) system only to fullfill kolab?s rpm versions. Does kolab really need special rpms that are already installed during basic linux (fedora) installations?
> 
> So, why is the installation that COMPLICATED, just PREVENTING more users (others than debian?) to install kolab on more
> different linux distributions to make kolab more popular?
> 
> Today the german kolab forum (www.eforum.de) has been closed, but even there I found no final solution to my problems.
> 
> Has anybody a link to prebuild rpms for current fedora versions, or maybe a working howto?

Not for fedora, but for opensuse and gentoo there are native
packages available.  As no-one made these available for
Fedora, there are no Fedora packages.  Have a look at 
http://en.opensuse.org/Kolab to see what's available for suse.

-- 
Richard