I’m having an issue installing Zimbra Desktop. I’ve downloaded it from the website it goes to do the install using gedit I get this:
"Could not open the file /tmp/zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh.
gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again."
Anyone have any suggestions, please?
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> I’m having an issue installing Zimbra Desktop. I’ve downloaded it from
> the website it goes to do the install using gedit I get this:
>
> “Could not open the file /tmp/zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh.
>
> gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
> Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
> Select a character coding from the menu and try again.”
>
> Anyone have any suggestions, please?
A bit more information would be helpful.
How did you execute the file? What user account were you using? It may
require root. Did you follow the readme for Zimbra Desktop? What version of
SuSE are you running? What desktop? KDE or GNOME?
jdplunkett89 adjusted his/her AFDB on Wednesday 10 Jun 2009 19:06 to write:
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> I’m having an issue installing Zimbra Desktop. I’ve downloaded it from
> the website it goes to do the install using gedit I get this:
Why is it trying to install using an editor?
You should install that by in a console as root issuing something like
cd /tmp/
sh ./zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh.
Now it should run, however I have not read the install instruction for this
but you might also have to change it so that it is executable
Personally I would copy it to another dir first, maybe your home first as if
you have clear tmp set on the system it might get deleted on next boot.
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> “Could not open the file /tmp/zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh.
>
> gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
> Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
> Select a character coding from the menu and try again.”
The reason is that your machine looks at the .sh and thinks it is a text
script and so tries to open it with an editor.
Mark
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
> You should install that by in a console as root issuing something like
You should not install as root, in fact it will warn about this. Just use
your user account.
You do need to chmod +x on the file after downloading it.
> sh ./zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh.
I just ran the installer and while it does blather a lot of errors and
warnings in the konsole window, the install does work.
Here’s what all I have done:
I am using root, I am running openSuse 11.1, and I am running Gnome desktop. I’m still not having any luck. I’ve gone into terminal and logged in as root there and typed in “cd /tmp/” and then attempted this step: sh ./zdesktop_1_0_build_1593_linux_i686.sh. from baskitcaise’s post but that gets me no where. It says “sh: ./zdesktop_1_0_build_1539_linux_i686.sh: No such file or directory”
chmod +x the file? Apologies for the lack of understanding.
It sounds like you are not even getting the download or you are getting it
and we don’t know where it is.
I’m not a GNOME person so I don’t know if it is attempting to automagically
do a ‘run from location’ or something like that.
Try this. Download the file again but tell it where to put it.
In Firefox go to Edit>Preferences. Make sure you are on the Main settings
page and find the radio button that says Always ask me where to save files.
Select it and close.
Go to Zimbra site and download the file.
Save it to somewhere like /home/myaccount/Downloads
Then once you have it downloaded, open a Terminal window.
go into the Downloads directory /home/myaccount/Downloads
type chmod +x zdesktop_1_0_build_1539_linux_i686.sh
then do a
…/zdesktop_1_0_build_1539_linux_i686.sh
It should run and install. You do not need to be root. There are many
prompts to go through. I’d just take the defaults.
The next thing you will likely want, assuming the installer behaves on
GNOME as it does on KDE, is you will want to know how to launch the thing
after you exit it for the first time since it doesn’t build an icon into the
‘Start Menu’. Your first reaction would be to run zdesktop in the root of
the zimbra directory. That would be wrong and it won’t work. Use a file
manager like Nautilus in GNOME to browse to:
/home/user/zimbra/zdesktop/linux
and execute the file in there:
linux.desktop
You can build your own Menu item icon or drag a copy of it to your toolbar.
GofBorg adjusted his/her AFDB on Wednesday 10 Jun 2009 19:55 to write:
>> You should install that by in a console as root issuing something like
>
> You should not install as root, in fact it will warn about this. Just use
> your user account.
Thanx for clearing that G, I have not seen this installer so just went with
a standard response.
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Mark
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
Well reading about Zimbra Desktop, i thougth of installing and checking it out.
now to see how it works.
Cheers
> Well reading about Zimbra Desktop, i thougth of installing and checking
> it out.
>
> 1. Downloaded file to /home/<user>/download folder
> 2. in Dolphin, navigate to the folder and right click on the file &
> select properties.
> 3. In properties window, select permission tab and check is executable
> box. say ok and close window
> 4. double click on file. Installer starts.
> 5. the installer puts a shortcut on the desktop.
>
> now to see how it works.
That’s another way of doing it. I didn’t get the icon on the desktop
though, which is why I mentioned the workaround if it doesn’t appear.