Carbonio Community Edition | Installation

Installing Carbonio CE for the first time

The installation process is very easy!
Just follow these simple steps in your terminal for Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04. Other distros will be available soon.

• Assign a local IP address to your network interface (for more detail read the documentation Step 1: Interfaces)
  
• Add your FQDN to the /etc/hosts file (for more detail read the documentation Step 2: Setting Hostname)
  
• Configure valid A & MX records for your server and domain (for more detail read the documentation Step 3: DNS Resolution)
  
• Add Carbonio CE Repository for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS by executing
  

  echo ‘deb https://repo.zextras.io/rc/ubuntu focal main’ >>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/zextras.list
  
  apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv-keys 52FD40243E584A21

  
  
• Add Carbonio CE Repository for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS byexecuting
  

  echo ‘deb https://repo.zextras.io/rc/ubuntu bionic main’ >>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/zextras.list
  
  apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv-keys 52FD40243E584A21

• Perform a system upgrade by executing
  

  apt update && apt upgrade

  
  
• Install carbonio-ce package as the root user by executing
  

  apt install carbonio-ce

  
  
• Initialize the configuration by executing
  

  carbonio-bootstrap

  
  
• Now, switch to Zextras user and set a password for the administrator by executing the below command and replacing the yourpassword with your desired password (for more detail read the documentation Step 5: Installation and Configuration of Carbonio CE)
  

  su – zextras
  zmprov setpassword zextras@carbonio.local yourpassword

  
  
• You’re done!

Moreover, you can try Carbonio CE using virtual machines.

• Carbonio CE on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – VMware image – Virtualbox image
• Carbonio CE on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – VMware image – Virtualbox image