Fedora Core 6 and Scalix Server installation

[pmehta]

trying to install Scalix 10.0.5 fails on Fedora Core 6 with the tail command error and off course i get the infamous benign python version error.

i am going to try scalix 11 rc2 and see if that works as that is supported on Fedora Core 5.

[pmehta]

here is the output of the Scalix 11 rc release installer error:

./scalix-installer

Scalix Installer - extracting archive, please wait...
Scalix Installer - starting version 11.0.0.637...
Scalix Installer - using Python 2.4.4 (/usr/bin/python).
Error: unsupported OS release: Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) on x86_64
Scalix Installer - cleaning up...
Scalix Installer - done.

64 bit OS's are not supported apparently.

[florian]

64-bit OS is supported, but FC6 is not. Scalix 11 does support FC5.

Cheers,
Florian.

[pmehta]

thanx florian

will scalix 11 work on FC 5 64bit ?

[florian]

yes. Scalix is compiled as a 32-bit applicaiton, but is supported and will run on a x86_64 version of Fedora Core 5.

Florian.

[fkirsammer]

Hi,

will scalix run on fc6 in future, or is there no plan to support newer platforms?

[florian]

What kind of question is that?

We've always upgraded to the latest versions of our supported platforms; however, due to our very strict on-platform testing and QA process, there are two points to consider:

1. We'll determine latest version by what's available when our release testing cycle starts. Testing for Scalix 11 started September/October timeframe and FC6 wasn't available back then.

2. Due to building and testing on platform and our relatively short release cycle, we usually phase in new versions with new releases; this means we probably won't be supporting FC6 for Scalix 11.0. However, the next release of Scalix is planned for mid-spring, i.e. 1H/2006 and we'll update our Fedora Support then, most likely to FC6 (or FC7 if it is available in time)

However, for production systems we recommend being more conservative and possibly not going for the latest OS releases. Our most stable and proven production platforms at this time are RHEL4 and SLES9, so for mission-critical systems this is what we would always recommend. Fedora and SuSE Pro/OSS are somewhat on the bleeding edge, which has caused problems at times.

Cheers,
Florian.

[rayt]

Hi Florian,

It's now 2H/2007. Any progress with support for FC6?

Thanks,
Ray

[eM]

Do you really need the support?

If not, I've got Scalix running on Fedora 7...

[rayt]

Hi eM,

Fedora 7 would do. I'm running FC6 at the moment and was waiting on a Scalix release that would run properly on it. I've got no problems with upgrading if Scalix is going to be a simple and (as much as possible) stable install.

Is there anything special you had to do to get it running on Fedora 7?

Thanks.

[btisdall]

Search the forum for info on how to fix the tail error, but if this is a production system & you need a free as in beer OS then do yourself a favour & install on CentOS 4.

[eM]

Hi eM,

Fedora 7 would do. I'm running FC6 at the moment and was waiting on a Scalix release that would run properly on it. I've got no problems with upgrading if Scalix is going to be a simple and (as much as possible) stable install.

Is there anything special you had to do to get it running on Fedora 7?

Thanks.

for a fresh installation it's easy, if you want to migrate from an older release it's a little bit more work...

greets mario