Open-Xchange on CentOS 5.0

Hello,

The purpose of this blog is to document the step by step procedure for installing Open-Xchange and all its required components on a CentOS 5.0 system. The system to be used is an AMD Athelon X2 4600 with CentOS 5.0 x86_64. These instructions will not take i686 architecture into account. Since there should be no proprietary software involved the procedure should be no different for a 32bit system. Every package installed will exist for both the i386 and x86_64 architectures.

The project is to be undertaken to supplement the Open-Xchange install documentation which is currently for Ubuntu(and debian systems) .

This documentation will include as much detail as possible in terms of a step by step install.

The following assumptions will be made:
-CentOS 5.0 is installed and up to date
-Installer is moderately familiar with the command line (or at least copy/paste)
-Installer has an understanding of Redhat style repositories and the yum tool.

The install process should mirror the install process described here. Please remember that this is a work in progress and that I'm learning and doing these steps as we go along and will publish a complete installation guide once a server is up and working. If people know of similar guides please let me know as this is not intended to be a selfish project but a learning project and would value any input I could get.

Thanks
Ben

P.S.
Next Posting will be about installing java the CentOS way.
External links

-Installing Open-Xchange
-CentOS 5.0