How To Install zarafa on CentOS 7
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.