Re: maia success on php-7.x distros

Just fixed a typo in the installers.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:56 PM Holly Justman <ianj-/[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I was doing things manually as I'd done in the past.  I found out about
> the newer Git repository, but I didn't know there was an installation
> script now.  Will have to clear and start over on my Debian and Ubuntu
> setups to see how this works.
>
> --Holly.
>
> On 04/09/2020 16:40, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> > Also - be sure and use the latest pull from the repo. It has been
> > getting several updates a day.
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:33 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Holly,
> >
> >     When you installed with ubuntu 18.04 and Debian, did you install by
> >     hand, or use the installer?
> >
> >     I've lightly tested the install script for ubuntu 18.04 (it worked
> >     fine in a container, but if it missed something in a different use
> >     case, I'd like to see the install log).
> >
> >     I'm running prod maia on Debian 10, which was tested in a container,
> >     a VM and a physical box. They were all installed with the install
> >     script. If you look at the installer script for ubuntu-18,04, you
> >     will see exactly how each component was installed.
> >
> >     I'm not aware of any missing php pieces.
> >
> >     As for html purifier, the reason we specified a path is that pear
> >     was unable to install htmlpurifier. If that pear issue is fixed,
> >     then of course, you can uncomment the line that auto detects the
> >     location. But to get things running right now, the installer
> >     installs html purifier standalone and specifies the location.
> >
> >     Jake
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:18 PM Holly Justman <ianj-/[email protected]
> >     <mailto:ianj-/[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >         On 04/05/2020 11:37, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> >          > We recently restarted work on our maia repository and have
> >         had some
> >          > encouraging deployments. While we originally targeted Centos
> >         7, we've
> >          > since gotten it working on centos 8, and also also tested on
> >         Debian 10
> >          > and Ubuntu 18.04.
> >          >
> >          > As of today, my own prod mailguard servers are running on
> >         Debian 10 and
> >          > Centos 8.
> >          >
> >          > All in all, the Debian 10 deployment has been the least
> >         troublesome.
> >          >
> >          > Cheers,
> >          >
> >          > Jake
> >          > https://github.com/einheit/maia_mailguard_1.04a
> >         Curious you say this, as I have had nothing but trouble getting
> >         this
> >         working under Ubuntu 18.04.
> >
> >         I tried this exact Git repository but was missing a lot of PHP
> >         stuff.
> >         Also, there's a defect in the detection script, wherein it makes
> >         a very
> >         specific attempt to locate the HTMLPurifier in a very specific
> >         place.
> >         Remove the specificity it has (so it's just the module) and it
> >         works fine.
> >
> >         On to the stuff that is outright broken.  How do you get the MDB2
> >         support working?  There are packages missing for that support in
> >         Ubuntu
> >         18.04's repositories, notably the mysqli MDB2 driver.  There's
> >         reference
> >         to a package, but only insofar as to say it's not even available.
> >         "php-mdb2-driver-mysqli (>= 1.5.0~b4) Package not available" says
> >         packages.ubuntu.com <http://packages.ubuntu.com> for Bionic.
> >
> >         The complete red-item list (assuming these mean requirements or
> >         Maia
> >         doesn't work) is below:
> >
> >         PEAR::Mail_mimeDecode   FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
> >         extension is
> >         required to decode MIME-structured e-mail. Use pear install
> >         Mail_mimeDecode to install this. (Mail_mimeDecode was split from
> >         Mail_Mime at version 1.5.0)
> >         PEAR::DB                FAILED: 1.9.2 DB.php installed as:
> >         /usr/share/php/DB.php
> >         PEAR::MDB2              FAILED: Could not connect to database.
> >         Check the
> >         mysqli://amavis:passwd@tcp(localhost:3306)/maia setting in
> >         config.php.
> >         PEAR::MDB2#mysqli       FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
> >         extension is
> >         required in order to provide database abstraction. Use pear
> install
> >         MDB2#mysqli to install this.
> >         [...]
> >         PEAR::Pager             FAILED: Not installed. This PHP
> >         extension is
> >         required in order to paginate the list of mail items in the
> >         quarantines
> >         and the ham cache. Use pear install Pager to install this.
> >
> >         I'm not including the yellow-line stuff as some is optional,
> >         only for
> >         graphs.
> >
> >         All this said, I'd rather not have to go outside the
> >         distribution so I
> >         can install and update Maia's dependencies automatically.
> >
> >         I also tried using Debian, and a few more prereqs (like php-log)
> >         weren't
> >         available.
> >
> >         Were you using Pear to install these?  And how do you keep them
> >         up to
> >         date when other stuff in PHP gets updated?
> >
> >         Thanks for any insight you may have.
> >
> >         --Holly.
> >
> >         --
> >         Holly R. Justman - Formerly Ian (legacy account)
> >         UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
> >         ianj (at) ian-justman.com <http://ian-justman.com>
> >
>
> --
> Holly R. Justman - Formerly Ian (legacy account)
> UNIX hacker.  Anime fan.  Any questions?
> ianj (at) ian-justman.com
>

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