pls help command line install for the Community Edition

[MWende]

Hello,

how can i Install the Scalix Community Edition without a X-Windows on a Suse 9.3??

pls coud somewone send me the command line optios ???


Thx

[cunctator]

Hello,
same problem, why is's not possible to install scalix without a x-Server..
on my leased server its easier to install by command line. it's much more complicated with an x-server, because of the installation of the x-server and the packets (e.g. the different libraries).

sorry for my bad english

[florian]

Friends..... :-)

good news for both of you!

First of all, it is possible to install Scalix without a X-Server running on your Server itself; X-Windows is capable of redirecting it's graphical Output over the net.

You just need X-Windows running on your local PC from which you stage the install; how this is done depends on your operating system. If you're running Linux or Mac OS/X on your desktop, the capability is already built into the OS. If this is a Windows PC, you'll need a X-Windows Server running - i recommend Cygwin/X, which is part of the OpenSource Cygwin project, available at www.cygwin.com.

You start your X-Server and from a terminal Window running within X, you start a SSH-Session with a X-Windows tunnel to your Scalix server, this is done using a

ssh -X root@scalix.server.hostname.com

command.

When you then start scalix-installer in this ssh session, screen output will be tunneled into your PC through the SSH connection and displayed on your local desktop!


However, to make things even more easy, should such possibility not exist, the Installer in the next release of Scalix - scheduled for release in February - will actually run in text mode if there is no graphical display or X-Window redirection available. This is also good if you need to run the installer over slow lines or directly on a text console of your server or need to automate the install.

Enjoy,
Florian.

[cunctator]

i will try it, thanks!

[tez]

Florian,

You need to ensure that the xorg-x11-xauth package is already installed on the Scalix server for X11 forwarding to work - the package name 'xorg-x11-xauth' is the one used by CentOS/RHEL4/Fedora; other distributions may vary.

This must be installed in order for SSH to exchange X11 authorization cookies with the remote host.

Although this package is installed with a default configuration, if you go for an absolute bare minimum install of CentOS/RHEL4/Fedora, this isn't installed and it took me a while to figure out why I couldn't get X11 forwarding to work correctly.

Regards,
Terry Froy
Spilsby Internet Solutions
http://www.spilsby.net/