[horde] Fwd: Install problems

[Torben Dannhauer]

> Am 30.08.2017 um 05:04 schrieb o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com>:

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> From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [horde] Install problems
> To: sysadmin at i.grouchysysadmin.com
> Cc: horde at lists.horde.org
> 
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> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Tried installing each of the listed packages. Each using
> $ pear install --force horde/Nag    (for example)
> 
> Not one of the packages was installed. Each attempt seemed to also put in
> an install for a whole raft of other packages as well - - - but nothing was
> installed.

I use horde with php 7.0 myself, so it is definitely working.
I use the -force flag to install packages.

You need to read the error messages in detail.
To be able to help you, please specify exactly the command you used and also give us the output of that command...

Kind regards,
Torben

> 
> Sorry - - - any ideas for solution 4b?
> 
> Dee
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