[horde] Install problems

[o1bigtenor]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Grouchy Sysadmin <
sysadmin at grouchysysadmin.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.


Greetings

Thank you for the suggestions guys!!

So I used   $ pear install --force horde/webmail    .
Still a failed install.

If I install the 7 packages listed is that enough to run webmail?

Any ideas when this situation is going to change?

Dee