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

Corne corne at etechisp.net
Wed Sep 20 13:11:07 CEST 2006


Why don't you download the source rpms and compile from that ?

http://max.kde.org:8080/mirrors/ftp.kolab.org/server/release/kolab-server-2.0.4/sources/

It takes an hour or so to compile but it works.

HTH
Corne

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:59, Wolfgang Schleicher wrote:
> > Re: Better (easier) way to install kolab on Fedora Core Systems??
> >
> > > 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 satisfied 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 (2.0.4,
> > > 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
>
> Richard,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Sorry, but I'm not able to change to suse or gentoo (or debian) just for
> running KOLAB.
>
> Meanwhile, I also read some posts in the kolab developer mailling lists as
> there seems to be a discussion about getting rid of the openpkg addiction.
> Also in your kolab/opensuse link the author is complaining about the
> openpkg dependencies and its disadvantages [Some facts].
>
> Maybe the kolab developers should release future releases as tarballs, -
> btw, that's what's also done with the non-commercial version of
> open-xchange.
>
> If the kolab team cannot provide ready built packages for different
> distributions, than just building from tarballs seems to me more
> successfully than dealing with the openpkg part.
>
> Sorry, but turning away from a interesting software product because of
> massive installations problems (failures) is of course not in the
> developers' interests.
>
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