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kerick

Command line install

Postby kerick » Thu May 26, 2005 2:53 pm

Is there a set of steps to follow for command line only install?
I have no way to get a monitor onto the machine and would like to evaluate as quickly as possible.

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Postby ScalixSupport » Fri May 27, 2005 7:56 pm

Hi. if you look in the:

scalix-9.2.1-intel/admin_resource_kit

subdirectory, you'll find instructions on how to do a non-GUI based install. The file is called manual_installation_instructions.html.

Thanks,
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Postby will123195 » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:09 pm

is there a reason why 9.4.0 community does not include the manual installation instructions?

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Postby ScalixSupport » Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:47 am

It's primarily the fact that we wanted to be able to support this free release in a controlled manner.

We have tested the graphical installation on Red Hat and SuSE and know it works. If people who download the Community Edition use the software on platforms we support and use the installation as we've documented in the installation guide, we can (typically) discount installation issues if they post software problems at a later date.

If people choose to install the product in a way that we haven't tested (and for the most part this means on an unsupported platform), we have to spend time going through the installation process which, I hope you appreciate, can be a time consuming process. The simpler fact is that we can't guarantee the behaviour of the product under conditions we haven't tested for. We have a good idea about how things should behave but we can't take the risk of people becoming reliant on the product only to find a subtle problem further down the line that could affect how you run the server (or even if you choose to use Scalix).

Cheers

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Postby florian » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:00 am

Using our installer, btw., does not mean that you'll have to install a graphical display onto your server. The only thing you'll need on there are the X11 libraries and the Python GTK toolkit.

What I usually do is that I have CygwinX (www.cygwin.com, it's free) running on a Windows client, then connect to the server through ssh and X tunneling (ssh -X...) and run the Installer from there. I would never install a full desktop on a server.

Also, the next release of Scalix will have an improved Installer that you can run in non-graphical mode (i.e. the prompts will all be text-based and run on a normal console). The manual installation instructions that can be found in Enterprise Edition today will then be deprecated as we don't want to update them with the growing number of little steps (with every release) the Installer goes through for the installation.

Hope this helps,
Florian.
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pmcconaghy

Postby pmcconaghy » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:26 pm

florian wrote:Also, the next release of Scalix will have an improved Installer that you can run in non-graphical mode


Hi there.

Can the current installer run in non-graphical mode? If not, any idea when that one will be released?

Peter

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Postby cunctator » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:02 pm

pmcconaghy wrote:If not, any idea when that one will be released?



no road map for the next release?

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Postby ScalixSupport » Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:36 pm

The next release, due Q1 06, will provide a command-line installer.

Cheers

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Postby cunctator » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:42 am

thx


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