Install help for Kolab newbie

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Paul Waldo <paul at waldoware.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to evaluate Kolab, without much success.  Before I
> moved to another groupware solution, I thought I'd try to get some help
> from the experts :-)
>
> I'm running a Kubuntu Gusty AMD64 machine.  I first tried the kolab
> packages that came with the OS.  I successfully ran kolab_bootstrap, but
> now when I try to get initially logged in via the web admin interface
> (https://kolab.mydomain/admin/), I just get a blank page.  I've looked
> in the apache logs, but the only thing of note I see is
> 10.0.0.10 - - [30/Nov/2007:13:54:49 +0000] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -
> Not very interesting...
> I'm not sure where to procede from her in debugging.  Ubuntu packages
> would be my preferred method of install, but just to be thourough, I
> figured I would try compiling from source.  This is on a Kubuntu 6.06 box.

The Kolab server is a rather complex structure of many different
components. This makes all the native ports of Kolab rather
problematic. They do not tend to have the same kind of quality you get
from the OpenPKG variant. The OpenPKG based install can be far better
quality tested since the devs are in full control of the environment.

>
> I got all of the files from
> http://max.kde.org:8080/mirrors/ftp.kolab.org/server/release/kolab-server-2.1.0/sources/
> I followed the instructions at
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ubuntu_6.06 to get gcc 3.4
> I followed the intructions at
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Installation_-_Source
>
> Compilation fails like this:
> pwd: /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3
> Running configure in multilib subdir 32
> pwd: /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> mkdir 32
> configure: creating cache ./config.cache
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether /kolab/bin/make --no-print-directory sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc...
> /kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/gcc/xgcc
> -B/kolab/RPM/TMP/gcc-4.0.2/obj/gcc/
> -B/kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
> -B/kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
> /kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem
> /kolab/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include  -m32
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
> make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /kolab/RPM/TMP/rpm-tmp.49252 (%build)
>
> Any help with either of these install scenarios would be greatly
> appreciated!  TIA.

You basically hit this bug:

http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ubuntu_6.06

You can either try to follow the instructions given there or you can
try the current beta version. I'd actually suggest the latter.

While OpenPKG has the advantage of providing a very stable and
controlled environment we always have the problem that our stable
server versions get outdated at some point and we collect more and
more problems installing on newer distribution versions.

In general we try to collect the required workarounds in the wiki.


>
> Paul
>
> PS
> Is there a demo server that I can access just to see how kolab works?
> I'd hate to go through all this effort only to find that it doesn't fit
> my needs :-(

I'm sorry, we don't have that at the moment. But now that the Horde
webmail is available we should consider setting one up. Without Horde
you wouldn't have had too much to see to be honest :)

Cheers,

Gunnar

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