19.1 Release notes and distribution specific instructions

Please read the general 19.1+ Installation instructions first, they are not repeated here again!

How to install EGroupware GmbH's EPL version

If you update or install EPL, you have to install the Community Edition first!

The update described below will remove the EPL packages, of cause leaving your data intact. To install the EPL source / run the EPL container you need your download.egroupware.org credentials and run the following command:

/etc/egroupware-docker/use-epl.sh

It will ask your EPL repo credentials, add them and the EPL image to your docker-compose.yml file and start the EPL container.

Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 & 16.04 or Debian 10

For new installations or updating from EPL you need to add our server:eGroupWare repo first:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/eGroupWare/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/server:eGroupWare.list"

sudo apt-get install gnupg # required, but not installed by apt-key add

wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:eGroupWare/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key -O - | \
   sudo apt-key add -

For Ubuntu 18.04 the docker.service must be enable manually to automatic start at system start: sudo systemctl enable docker.service

For Ubuntu 18.04 or 16.04 please replace in the above instructions "xUbuntu_20.04" with "xUbuntu_18.04" or "xUbuntu_16.04", for Debian 10 use "Debian_10".

Then you need to run for new installations as well as upgrades explicitly (apt upgrade alone is not sufficient!):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install egroupware-docker

If you prefer to use Nginx on the host for a new installation, you can do so by adding nginx to the install command above. This is not supported for an upgrade!

Our Ubuntu package recommends Rocket.Chat and Collabora Online Office, which mean they will be installed by default, unless you opt out by using --no-install-recommends in the above apt-get command. Doing so you have to take care of explicitly installing MariaDB! Of cause you can always deinstall them after testing, if you prefer to use something else.

Ubuntu 16.04 does not provide a docker-compose package/command, therefore we provide one in our repository.

Debian 9

Debian 9 does NOT contain a docker.io package. You can use Docker CE by following this instructions, or the short version here:

apt update
apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
apt update
apt install docker-ce
# due to known bug docker-ce wont start unless you reboot the maschine
reboot

Please verify that docker is running, after the reboot, our installation will not run without:

systemctl status docker

Now you can follow the Ubuntu/Debian instructions above using "Debian_9.0" instead of "xUbuntu_18.04".

Even as Debian 9 does not provide a docker package, it provides a too old docker-compose package/command, therefore we provide a current one in our repository.

openSUSE 15.1 & 15.0 or SLES 15 & 12

If you have automatic updates enabled or run zypper update manually update to 19.1 will happen automatic!

For new installations or updating from EPL you need to add our server:eGroupWare repo first:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:eGroupWare/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/server:eGroupWare.repo

For openSUSE 15.0 please replace in the above instructions "openSUSE_Leap_15.1" with "openSUSE_Leap_15.0", for SLES use "SLE_15" or "SLE_12".

Then you need to run for new installations or updating EPL:

zypper refresh
zypper install egroupware-docker

or to update an existing installation

zypper update

Our SUSE packages recommends Rocket.Chat and Collabora Online Office, which mean they will be installed by default, unless you opt out by using --no-recommends in the above zypper command. Doing so you have to take care of explicitly installing MariaDB! Of cause you can always deinstall them after testing, if you prefer to use something else.

SLES does not provide a docker-compose package/command, therefore we provide one in our repository.

RHEL or CentOS 7

If you have automatic updates enabled or run yum update manually, the update to 19.1 will happen automatic!

RHEL/CentOS 7 have SELinux enabled by default, which stops MariaDB/MySQL socket bind-mounted into the container from working. You currently need to switch SELinux off in order to use EGroupware! To do so temporary run setenforce 0 to permanently switch it off edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux, set SELINUX=disabled and reboot.

RHEL/CentOS 7 has a firewall enabled by default which do NOT allow to access the webserver!

To enable http(s) access in the default firewall run the following commands:

firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

For new installations or updating from EPL you need to add our server:eGroupWare repo first:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:eGroupWare/RHEL_7/server:eGroupWare.repo

Then you need to run for a new installations:

yum install mariadb-server
systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start mariadb
yum install egroupware-docker egroupware-collabora-key egroupware-rocketchat

It is important that MariaDB runs, before you attempt to install EGroupware!

or updating EPL:

yum install egroupware-docker

or to update an existing (non-EPL) installation:

yum update

RHEL/CentOS does not provide a docker-compose package/command, therefore we provide one in our repository.

RHEL or CentOS 8

RHEL/CentOS 8 uses nftables instead of iptables, which does not work with current docker-ce. You need to configure firewalld to use iptables by editing /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf:

#FirewallBackend=nftables
FirewallBackend=iptables
systemctl restart firewalld

RHEL/CentOS 8 has no docker package (it uses it's own replacement podman instead). To install docker-CE run the following commands

curl  https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo
yum install --nobest docker-ce
systemctl enable --now docker

From their on you can follow the RHEL/CentOS 7 instructions above, replacing RHEL_7 in the repo-url with CentOS_8.

Univention

EGroupware 19.1 is available via the Unvention App Center, thought there are a couple of requirements

• UCS 4.4-2 is required
• if the server was installed before UCS 4.3 and updated, you have to manually enable the memberOf overlay
• if you use EGroupware on a slave, you need to use the ldap from the master (is set automatic for new installations)

PostgreSQL

EGroupware does NOT (yet) support PostgreSQL 12, you have to use version 11 or below!

Keep in mind, that you can NOT use localhost to address a service eg. PostgreSQL inside the container, as it does NOT refer to the host, but the container itself. You have to use the IP address of the host or the docker0 bridge AND make sure the service is not just bound to localhost!

While an update of a PostgreSQL instance works similar to MariaDB/MySQL, a new installation does not happen automatic!

1. Edit /etc/egroupware-docker/docker-compose.yml and add the following to the environment section:

- EGW_SKIP_INSTALL=true

2. remove the header.inc.php, so EGW_SKIP_INSTALL takes effect

rm -f /var/lib/egroupware/header.inc.php

3. start the containers as usual with: docker-compose up -d
4. Go to http://example.org/egroupware/setup/ and do a manual installation