> after Andy and I (well, mostly Andy ;) played around with building the > Kolab packages from source for Fedora Core 1 (which is what the client is > running on their server), we got all the RPMs built and installed. from > there it was a simple matter of /etc/init.d/kolab start. >
I will elaborate somewhat on what Aaron mentioned here. Kolab is an open source groupware package. What Kolab is composed of are many open source software packages working together (apache, postfix, openldap, php, procmail, proftd, imapd ... etc.). How Kolab is setup is also kind of interesting. You end up with your own little Kolab world. Kolab has it's own version of "everything" installed. This goes right down to it's own RPM database with it's own versions of make, patch, gcc, perl, many others, and the custom packages I mentioned earlier. I have set it up to run a separate version of apache, so it will not conflict with the webserver already running. I (we), installed kolab from it's source rpms. This proved to be somewhat tricky as the QIM (quick install manual) contained incorrect information, and because the kolab project is still in it's infancy, documention, and help is not overly available. To a non-developer, some of the issues that I came across (such as incorrect build options on apache, which caused me to start manually compiling the RPM/SRC directory, and playing with Makefiles, and tracking down the issues, and modify the spec files to get it to work), may be overwhelming. As the community grows, so does support for ready to use binaries, and the like. I however now have a working set of rpms for Fedora Core 1. :-D As Aaron mentione Mandrake has available packages ... and SuSE will follow suit shortly I am sure. I agreed with Aaron that a demonstration sometime would be an excellent idea. This is a superb project, and it will only get better with a greater following. Just in case it is not apparent in Aarons original post. http://kolab.org cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
