Zimbra on Etch
I few weeks back I read about
Zimbra, about the functions, the features ….. It was all good. I
managed to get everything working and I’ll put here under how I did it.
dependencies
Before we start the installation of Zimbra we need to install all
necessary dependencies. The Zimbra installation script checks whether
these packages are installed or not and they need to be install other
wise the script stops with an error. To install them run following:
apt-get install sudo libidn11 fetchmail libgmp3c2 libxml2 libstdc++6 openssl libltdl3
To make sure during the installation of zimbra-core you won’t get an error, you need to install curl:
apt-get install curl
To ensure that in a later stage when all the services start no
errors would be given. You need to install libexpat1 and libpcre3:
apt-get install libexpat1 libpcre3
Download & untar
Before we start the installation we need to download the Zimbra package for Debian Etch. I will place the download in tmp:
cd /tmp
Here you can make the chose of downloading it through bittorrent or over http: http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html. I’ll use http with wget the get it directly on to the server. Since it’s about Debian etch chose Debian 4.0 package.
wget http://files.zimbra.com/downloads/5.0.1_GA/zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.DEBIAN4.0.20080109200914.tgz
Next untar the file:
tar zxvf zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.DEBIAN4.0.20080109200914.tgz
Install
Now the installation can start all preparations are done. First we move into the untar dir and start the installation:
cd /tmp/zcs-5.0.1_GA_1902.DEBIAN4.0.20080109200914
./install
During the installation if you hostname doesn’t have mx records you
need to enter a domain name that does. After all packages have been
installed you have the ability to set your adminstrator password. This
is also the moment you can change several configuration values of
Zimbra. TO continue with the installation and configuration of zimbra
you need to press A and enter. This could take a few minutes or even 10
minutes it depends on the speed of your system.
Finish
To see if everything works you can use, you need to be as zimbra user, there for you need to do:
su - zimbra
To check if everything is up and running do:
zmcontrol status
To go to the web mail you need to go to http://zimbra-server/
The admin section can be found here https://zimbra-server:7071/zimbraAdmin