Scalix-CU installation fails on CentOS4 (RHEL4 Clone)

[dumeel]

Hi,

Iam currently running CentOS4 (http://www.centos.org) on my system. It is a RHEL4 clone.
The installation comes out with an error message :

" The system is running an unknown or unsupported operating system release."

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root]# sh ./scalix-installer-community

Scalix Installer - extracting archive, please wait...
Scalix Installer - starting version 9.4.0.53...
Scalix Installer (Community Edition) - audit log file is /var/log/scalix-installer-20050817.log
Scalix Installer - cleaning up...
Scalix Installer - stopped.

root# more /var/log/scalix-installer-20050817.log
2005-08-17 21:47:40,643 INFO Starting Scalix Installer (Community Edition)
2005-08-17 21:47:41,133 INFO Current locale is en_US and default is en_US
2005-08-17 21:48:00,519 INFO Packages installed: {}
2005-08-17 21:48:02,397 INFO Obsolete packages installed: {}
2005-08-17 21:48:02,509 INFO Unwanted packages installed: {}
2005-08-17 21:48:05,673 INFO Saving installation type: installall mode: typical
2005-08-17 21:48:06,182 ERROR Operation failed: OS release check CentOS release 4.1 (Final)
2005-08-17 21:48:16,761 INFO Ending Scalix Installer (Community Edition) - Msg: The system is running an unknown or unsupported operating system release.
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I did see a post saying that one needs to modify /etc/redhat-config. But Idont see such a
file in my system! But I do see a /etc/redhat-release.

root# more /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.1 (Final)

Could you please let me know what needs to be added in /etc/redhat-config ? or what
is the right way of installing it on CentOS4 ?

thanks in advance.

[dumeel]

Sorry for the typo. I meant "Scalix-CE"

[natkins]

CentOS is not officially supported by Scalix so the official line is "no, you can't" However it *might* work although there is no guarantee. The correct /etc/redhat-release for RHEL4 is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)

Good luck but please be aware that this platform has not been tested by Scalix and is not supported. If you do get CentOS to work please post your findings here so others may benefit. Thank you.

Nick.

[florian]

I've actually heard rumors from others trying that this seems to work... again, no guarantees and no help from our support if it doesn't, because patch revisions of libraries might (and will!) be different and some parts of our product have strong dependencies there!

enjoy,
florian.

[florian]

this has been said before, but if you're looking for a free redhad alternative, we tend to suggest fedora core 3 (as of scalix 9.2.1) or fedora core 4 (as of scalix 9.4) instead.

these have been verified to work and are supported for evaluation and small production sites.

-- florian.