"dependency" failure?

[KKJensen]

Hi there,

installing Scalix 11 on a CentOS4.4 box as per the instructions on http://www.sonoracomm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=32
...this worked fine on runlevel 5.

I'm now trying to do a text install via ssh from another machine. I run

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./scalix-installer --cli

which starts up the text installer and walks me through the same steps where I pick "install everything, etc etc" The problem is necessary stuff isn't getting selected for installation.

My dependency check comes back with:

Environment check passed.
Filesystem check passed.
Network check warning -- network is configured for DHCP.
Dependency check failed -- The following component(s) were missing from install/upgrade selection:
Scalix Server and Scalix Apache/Tomcat Connector.
Please return to the previous screen to select the missing component(s).
Dependency check failed -- Please resolve the following package conflicts and re-run the system checks:
scalix-tomcat-connector is needed by scalix-tomcat-5.5.16-152.noarch
Running services check passed.

What am I missing? Why isn't the components "Scalix Server" and "Scalix Apache/Tomcat Connector" getting installed? I would image these two to be necessary and installed by default. When running in graphical mode I get 10 compoenents to install...in text mode I only see 8. What gives?

[edit] I've ran the installer on another machine (athlon 2500) in text mode and I get all 10 options. It seems like it's on my older Xeon 1GHz that it's only giving me 8 options....still investigating[/edit]

thanks in advance.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi!

Can you run the command "rpm -qa | grep scalix" on the box in which you were
prompted for only eight packages and reply with the results of the same. Was scalix
already installed on the machine earlier.

Thanks,
Subir

[KKJensen]

zip, nada

[root@gateway scalix-11.0.1-GA]# rpm -qa |grep scalix
[root@gateway scalix-11.0.1-GA]#

I'm wondering if it is perhaps one of the services that the howto I followed had me disable???

This is an install from the CentOS Server CD (it's an install disk that is purely CLI). The machine that things worked on is the same version of CentOS (4.4) but it was a regular set of install disks that I selected the same packages on. Both installers were ran via ssh.

[me-san]

try uninstall all the scalix things on your comp and then try to reinstall...might work

[KKJensen]

there's nothing on it to uninstall...the installer just fails at the dependecy check.

[me-san]

hmm... thats annoying... dunno if it works but if you install only that connector first and the rest afterwards... could do the trick...though the installer shouldnt budge on something like such dependency

[KKJensen]

The two missing items don't show up on the list of things to install. Is there an rpm or some other way to bruteforce install just certain parts?

I'm still curious if the howto I followed (I liked to it in the original post) has anything to do with it. Basically re-label CentOS as RHE so the installer will start, then disable a bunch of unnecessary services

If not, I'll likely try to reinstall with the full set of install cds (like the machine that is working) and see if that makes a difference.

[ScalixSupport]

Hello,

I see the network configuration is DHCP enabled, could you make that Name based and try
again. Can you check the contents of the folder scalix-11.0.x-xx/software/scalix_server/ if
the RPMs for scalix-server and scalix-tomcat-connector are available.

Thanks,
Subir

[KKJensen]

I had forgotten that all the rpms were just in a directory...it's been about 6 months since I first tried scalix on a machine and then had the project shelved.

I ended up reinstalling the OS with the full 4-cd set instead of the single-cd "server" edition. Upon retry the very same tar file all the packages were showing up on the list.

Perhaps the trimmed down server cd was missing something critical that wasn't considered to be part of a minimalist server?

Thanks for checking up...I just reinstalled last night and have been successful in the testing of everything else this morning.

[JA Hill]

I'm having the same problem with the scalix server and tomcat apache connector being missing during the install. Both of the rpms are present in the Scalix/software folder. I installed CentOS4 using the 4 disk method GUI install. I have tried to install these first from the folder but the server rpm will not install because of missing dependencies. Tomcat will but then the scalix installer will not give you the option to do a full install.
I setup the server according to this link:
http://swifttide.com/scalix/Scalix_Setup.html

Any help will be gretly appreciated as I am still pretty new to Linux.

[KKJensen]

The 4-disk method worked for me...I believe I picked the standard "server" when the installer asked me and then removed the items that I absolutely knew didn't need to be there like ftp, news etc.

Did you do a server install from the 4 disk set or perhaps desktop/workstation? It seems like when I was installing with the single cd "server cd" that it wasn't installing quite everything. Since it worked with the 4-disk set (also installing xwindows & gnome) I thought that maybe there was something else required for the install that wasn't part of the single disk "server cd". Unfortunately I don't know what it might have been. When I did install Scalix I used the "--cli" option to install using the command line and everything worked fine.

Good luck! Sorry I can't offer anything more specific. single disk install didn't work...4 disk install w/gnome did.

[JA Hill]

I did do a server install but I left some of the options undone like the other link I posted said. I will reinstall CentOS and Scalix later today and post up my results. Thanks again!

[JA Hill]

I reinstalled CentOS agin using the four disk method. The only change I made was install almost every package for postgreSQL and enabled evolution for GNOME and the corresponding webcal. I also downloaded a fresh copy of Scalix and the install went off with out a hitch!!! I almost feel like I getting the hang of this linux stuff. Oh by the way I used the GUI install for scalix too.[/b]

[mitz]

I had the same problem on CentOS 5 until I realized that I downloaded the package for Fedora 5 instead of RHEL 5.

http://www.scalix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6447

mitz