[horde] Install of HGWE 4.0

[Simon Brereton]

On 6 November 2012 00:05, ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in> wrote:
> ----- Message from simon.buongiorno at gmail.com ---------
>     Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:51:34 -0500
>     From: Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: [horde] Install of HGWE 4.0
>       To: ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>
>       Cc: horde <horde at lists.horde.org>
>
>
>> On 5 November 2012 22:29, ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Message from jan at horde.org ---------
>>>     Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:25:38 +0100
>>>     From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
>>>  Subject: Re: [horde] Install of HGWE 4.0
>>>       To: horde at lists.horde.org
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear List,
>>>>>
>>>>> Will I be able to install HGWE 4.0 using pear or not?  I just wanted to
>>>>> know, because HGWE 5.0 is already released.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to just upgrade to 4.0 right now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not really, at least not with the PEAR installer and its limited
>>>> dependency resolver. You can install it from your distribution packages
>>>> though.
>>>> --
>>>> Jan Schneider
>>>> The Horde Project
>>>> http://www.horde.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to name webmail as webmail4 and new one as webmail5, so
>>> that,
>>> it may help someone like me to install HGWE4?  Or setting some option
>>> with
>>> pear command like state=old or version=4?
>>
>>
>> This is the way I have done it.  I use the system-wide pear to install
>> Horde4 in a directory called /usr/share/horde4 and a horde-specific
>> pear install to install Horde5 in a directory called
>> /usr/share/horde5.  It's simple, just remember to use the correct pear
>> command for the correct install.
>
>
> Can you please elaborate more on system-wide pear and horde-specific pear?

http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/docs/INSTALL#installing-into-separate-pear


>>> I think, this is where tarballs which were earlier provided may be
>>> useful,
>>> which have been stopped now.  Sorry for troubling you. I know, you are
>>> busy
>>> with development, but as a end user, these are my problems.
>>
>>
>> Everyone has an opinion of course.  Untarring tarballs was possibly
>> easier, especially when scripting an upgrade, but the pear method
>> allows for easier uninstall and version control - it seems to be a
>> problem for you because your server is not directly connected to the
>> internet.  But as has been pointed out before, you are free to
>> download the pear .tgz files anyway.  Even though there are more of
>> them a simple bash-script should make it very easy.
>
>
> pear install is very simple, and especialy upgrades.  I could upgrade my
> mysql preferences in minutes for Horde 4 from Horde 3.