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Zimbra build script released

Here’s my first swing at a hacked together build script to download, build, compile and install the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. If you haven’t been hip to it, Zimbra just kinda appeared out of nowhere, with a pretty nice email/cal webapp that has all the AJAX goodness you could hope for, with true drag and drop, pop up balloons, live searching and more. They have a demo you can play with here, and it’s worth checking out, just to see what’s up. For now my focus for day to day is still on the Hula Project, but to play with Zimbra I needed to hack a script together just so I could get this built on a ‘normal’ Linux distro (in this case my old server, jorge running Gentoo), and not Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora as they had released. I’ve already sent the script to a Zimbra dev, as well as a Ubuntu hacker for testing, so we’ll go from there. First impressions are that it’s a really nice, all in one email/cal server/app presentation. Unlike Hula controling everything, Zimbra is more of a LAMP application, so it will be interesting to see where they place this in terms of how well it could scale in an enterprise environment.

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  • fak3r (author) said:

    This is still a work in progress, namely these two links have really helped get me closer: http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2005/08/developing_with.html4 http://zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186 Once this is working it’ll be time to figure out how to extract just the ‘Zimbra’ part of the suite so it can work with existing components, ie- mysql, tomcat, etc that are already installed.

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:40 pm
  • fak3r (author) said:

    You can follow all the fun here, ask a question if you need help, the forums are really hopping: http://zimbra.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=15

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:40 pm
  • matt c said:

    Okay I’m Gentoo as well and Zimbra’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile. eml me if you think of something you need done that isn’t too difficult.

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:40 pm
  • fak3r (author) said:

    Matt C Will do, but I don’t see your email. Post again, or email me at: echo “fak3r fak3r com”|sed -e”s| |@|”|sed -e”s| |.|” I still don’t have it running, but have gotten very close, it’s a nice setup and I think it’s now the ‘one to watch’.

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:41 pm
  • GioSico said:

    LAMP … I think not … it would be cool if it was a LAMP app. Or COOLER I should say. Good on ya for the dev script

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:42 pm
  • ndir said:

    Any update from the Ubuntu developer you sent the script to?

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:42 pm
  • fak3r (author) said:

    No, I never heard back, however it seems that a modification for install.sh gets Zimbra working on Debian which will work for Ubuntu too, get it here: Finally got Zimbra working on Debian

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:42 pm
  • Bob Jones said:

    Do you happen to know if it’s possible to get Zimbra built on FreeBSD without too much hairloss?

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:43 pm
  • fak3r (author) said:

    Bob Jones Short answer, No. I haven’t tried it because you’d have to duplicate all of the MTA daemons, run a separate LDAP, etc…plus it’s all set to run out of /opt, and that *should* be /usr/local Still, once I have a bit of time I’m going to try and build it from src on a spare/untouched 6.0 install and see

    - 20 June 2006 at 10:43 pm

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