Comments on: Joining Ubuntu Repositories

By: Mike Morse

Mike Morse — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:38:45 +0000

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=27299 (system-packageable Zimbra Desktop)

By: David Fraser

David Fraser — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:25:19 +0000

I was initially excited about this but then observed:
* It just bundles the installer, it doesn’t actually constitute a proper package. Why would Ubuntu accept this when it doesn’t really follow their packaging deadlines
* It wouldn’t even install properly as the post-package install attempt to run the installer ran it as root, contrary to the wiki instructions ‘On Mac OS and Linux, do not run installer as the “root” user. ‘
* It seems that you need to run the installer for each user, thereby wasting lots of space and resources

I love Zimbra desktop as a concept and think that it’s fantastic that the Zimbra people produce it; it just seems to me that the above challenges being solved would be a good logical next step, and I’m sure if they were prioritised would be fairly easily done - this isn’t as difficult as producing Zimbra or Zimbra desktop in the first place!

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:38:55 +0000

Awesome..
I have been waiting for this for quite some time.

Thanks to you guys…
Ubuntu rocks with Zimbra..

I am gonna ditch Evolution and Thunderbird for this.

By: DOUGman

DOUGman — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:14:49 +0000

This works on Ubuntu, but not Kubuntu… I cannot for the like of me figure out why it installs and runs on one and not the other.

By: Yann Hamon

Yann Hamon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:11:11 +0000

Interesting, the package does’t actually install the software? Closer interaction with Canonical, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions is warmly welcomed anyway; it’s all about integration

By: Boblin

Boblin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:35 +0000

Great! Thanks!