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I know that opensuse 10.2 is currently not officially supported by Scalix but has anybody performed a successful installation of Scalix on 10.2 so far?

If so, could you give me a hint how to be successful myself?

I already tried to trick ./scalix-installer by setting /etc/SuSe-release info from 10.2 to 10.1 but that didn't work at all.

Thanks for help....

Scalix 11 runs perfectly on openSUSE 10.2. The only change needed is prior installation you have to change your /etc/SuSE-release to


After the install is done, change it back to

thanks a very lot, that did work well, in deed......

I did work work for me too. Thx...

You can also do:

./scalix-installer --override-release=suse101

Chris

Hi guys,

I am having a bit of a problem with my installation here wonder if someone can give me a hand. I want to install Scalix on openSuse 10.2 and I got everthing to check off green during the pre-install checks except for the libical-devel .. I did not initially have that package installed but later I tracked the rpm down and installed it. When I do a rpm -qa | grep libical I get 2 listing... libical -24-78 and libical-devel 24-78 (rc4 I think) .. I tried removing it, and installing it again, but it just seems that the scalix 11 installation just does not see it. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Scalix 11.2 will be officially supporting OpenSUSE 10.2.

Florian.

That sounds good. When can we see 11.2 out? Is there anything I can do meanwhile?

Thanks,

Paul

see my signature....

*** Scalix 11.1 available now - get it at http://www.scalix.com/downloads. Scalix 11.2 coming in September. ***

we are still working towards that goal. so really not much reason to do anything else i guess.

Florian.

your signature is what confused me because September is almost over .. so I anticipate it should be pretty quick then? If I paste my install logs (last few lines of it anyway that are actually relevant) could you see if there's anything there that might be of use?

i might be too much of a maths guy then. At least in my timezone, it's still 8,75 days left of september, that's 29% and that's not really what I would call almost-over!

As always, the final date is decided by the QA guys, but so far we're on track.

Nothing to look for in the logfiles. 10.2 is not supported, 11.1 was not build on it and the installer simply rejects it because the packages don't match. For 11.2, we have dropped support for SuSE 10.1 and introduced 10.2 support. We do build on platform, i.e. that means we have changed our build system, produced different packages and changed the installer over to work the platform correctly, so it will simply work. If, as a matter of fact, somebody got another version that was not built for it successfully to run on SuSE 10.2, that's good for him, but we won't support any of that and I don't have an opinion as I don't like to take chances with this kind of stuff, but rather rely on solid QA testing and signoff.

I suggest you're patient for just a little longer.... .-)

Florian.

I can definitely appreciate your point. So having said that, I can wait for the 11.2 version to run on openSuse 10.2 .. but for now I am eager to just get to know scalix a little and see if it can be worked into any of my clients solutions. What OS would you suggest to use at least temporarily? centOS ok?

Paul

well, for 11.1 officially supported OSes are Fedora Core 5, openSuSE 11.1, RedHat Enterprise 4 and 5 as well as SuSE SLES 9 and 10.

CentOS 4 and 5 are not officially supported, but are both known to work well, certainly enough meat there for testing purposes; you will need to tweak the /etc/redhat-release file, this forum has tons of hints on what exactly you need to do.

On SuSE vs. Red Hat, this is really a matter of personal preference. Me being an old-school Unix guy (started with System V.2) and being burned by the oddities of early SuSE releases, I do prefer Red Hat myself, because it just feels more raw, straighforward, clean and honest to me - others might - and will - disagree, but that's why we have choice!

In 11.2, Support for openSUSE 10.2 replaces 10.1 and Fedora 7 replaces Fedora Core 5, the remaining platform matrix remains unchanged.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

Yes definitely helps. I think I decided to wait now (too much going on anyways).

I started linux with red hat 5 I think .. and stuck with it until probably Fedore Core 2 .. I have core 5 as well .. but when I loaded openSuse 10.1 one one of my desktops I was quite impressed with how good the installer was .. then took openSuse 10.2 and put it on my notebook (which is what I am on right now) and that's been taking care of all my tasks with no major issues since the beginning of this year. Most of my servers are still running Fedora/Red Hat. I do really like the way openSuse is setup. Software install.. updates, etc is well done. I like Fedora too so... I couldn't really chose either I don't think

Beaujolais wrote:Scalix 11 runs perfectly on openSUSE 10.2. The only change needed is prior installation you have to change your /etc/SuSE-release to

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SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) OSS
VERSION = 10.1


After the install is done, change it back to

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openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
VERSION = 10.2


Can I do the opposite to get the newest Scalix on SuSE 10.1?