How To Install zarafa on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa on CentOS 7. zarafa is Open Source Edition of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa on CentOS 7.

What is zarafa

The Zarafa Collaboration Platform is a Microsoft Exchange replacement. The Open Source Collaboration provides an integration with your existing Linux mail server, native mobile phone support by ActiveSync compatibility and a webaccess with ‘Look & Feel’ similar to Outlook using Ajax. Including an IMAP and a POP3 gateway as well as an iCal/CalDAV gateway, the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration can combine the usability with the stability and the flexibility of a Linux server. The proven Zarafa groupware solution is using MAPI objects, provides a MAPI client library as well as programming interfaces for C++, PHP and Python. The other Zarafa related packages need to be installed to gain all features and benefits of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP).

We can use yum or dnf to install zarafa on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zarafa.

Install zarafa on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zarafa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zarafa

Install zarafa on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zarafa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zarafa

How To Uninstall zarafa on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the zarafa package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zarafa

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zarafa on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.