Thursday, May 22, 2014

ZimbraDesktop Installation on Ubuntu


Installation

Download the ZibraDesktop Linux version from following link:
http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/zd-downloads.html

Extract the files from the archive using (sudo in this case is very important!):
sudo tar xzvf zdesktop_2_0_b10580_linux_i686.tgz

Then cd into that directory:
cd zdesktop_2_0_b10580_linux_i686/

And run:
sudo perl install.pl

Enter your password and hit return/enter.

Follow the on-screen instructions, if you choose the defaults, you should have a launcher on your desktop, we need to get rid of that and the zdesktop directory in your home folder:
cd ~
sudo rm -rf zdesktop Desktop/zd.desktop

Then we need to create a new one using:
/opt/zimbra/zdesktop/linux/user-install.pl

Uninstallation

If you used the defaults during the installation, you can remove ZimbraDesktop by issuing the following commands. (note: this section is not yet complete)
sudo rm -rf /opt/zimbra/