[horde] Install problems

[Grouchy Sysadmin]

On 08/29/2017 07:29 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I have been working for a while trying to effect a horde webmail (hopefully
> being able to later add things to also make it groupware stuff too)
> install. It has been a long and more than somewhat arduous path. I am new
> to installing and configuring complicated combinations of software and not
> having any one document that gives all the steps (which then work) makes
> things quite challenging.
>
> I have gotten to the step where it says - - - -
> $ pear install horde/webmail
>
> and I'm looking forward to seeing something like the screen shots real soon
> now.
>
> What I get is about 60+ lines the last half of which say something like:
>
> Could not download from https://pear.horde.org/get, . . .    .
>
> which is troubling but the first half (lines that is) is (IMO) quite a bit
> more interesting
> horde/content requires PHP (version >= 5.3.0, version <=6.0.0alpha1, . . .
> ), installed version is 7.0.19-1                   - - - - so I did some
> checking.
> Php7.0 release date (AIUI) was some time in early October 2016 and, in
> fact, php 7.1 was itself released just a few months later (December 2016).
>
> This is very interesting because in using the command above (pear install)
> I find that there are 46 horde packages that just can't work with php7.0 .
> Looking a little further there is some suggestion that with horde_webmail
> 5.3 (not 5.2 the currently available) one will be able to use php7.0.
>
> So what should I be looking at doing:
>
> 1. forget about using horde_webmail
> 2. hope that the release of version 5.3 happens in the next ??????
> (week/month/year)
> 3. find some way to get php7.0 and php(5.6 IIRC) to coexist and install php
> (5.6)
> 4. some other solution
>
> ideas and suggestions requested - -- please.
>
> TIA
>
> Dee

Try option 4 :)

Use the --force flag to pear. At least Horde, Turba, Kronolith, Ingo, 
Imp, Mnemo, and Nag work with PHP 7.0.