Debian 5 & PSA 10

[tomdavidson]

Hello, I am trying to install Plesk 10 on a Lenny server. I have a current Lenny system an have added "deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_10.1.1/ lenny all"

s15426789:~# aptitude install psa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
exim4 exim4-config psa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
awstats{a} bind9{a} bind9-host{a} bind9utils{a} bsd-mailx{a} ca-certificates{a} defoma{a} dnsutils{a}
exim4-base{a} file{a} fontconfig-config{a} libbind9-50{a} libboost-date-time1.34.1{a}
libboost-filesystem1.34.1{a} libboost-program-options1.34.1{a} libc-client2007b{a} libcap2{a} libcurl3{a}
libdbd-mysql-perl{a} libdbi-perl{a} libdns58{a} libfontconfig1{a} libgd2-xpm{a} libgeoip1{a}
libhtml-template-perl{a} libicu38{a} libidn11{a} libisc50{a} libisccc50{a} libisccfg50{a} liblockfile1{a}
liblwres50{a} libnet-daemon-perl{a} libnet-xwhois-perl{a} libpam-plesk{a} libplrpc-perl{a} libsasl2-modules{a}
libsasl2-modules-sqlite3{a} libsqlite0{a} libssh2-1{a} libt1-5{a} libterm-readkey-perl{a} libx11-6{a}
libx11-data{a} libxau6{a} libxcb-xlib0{a} libxcb1{a} libxdmcp6{a} libxmlrpc-c3{a} libxpm4{a} lockfile-progs{a}
mailx{a} mlock{a} mysql-client-5.0{a} mysql-server{a} mysql-server-5.0{a} ntpdate{a} php5{a} php5-cgi{a}
php5-cli{a} php5-curl{a} php5-gd{a} php5-imap{a} php5-ioncube-loader{a} php5-mysql{a} php5-sqlite{a} php5-xsl{a}
plesk-base{a} plesk-core{a} plesk-mail-pc-driver{a} plesk-skins{a} postfix{a} postfix-pcre{a}
pp10.10.1-bootstrapper{a} psa-awstats-configurator{a} psa-courier-imap{a} psa-locale-base-en-us{a}
psa-logrotate{a} psa-mail-driver-common{a} psa-php5-configurator{a} psa-proftpd{a} psa-pylibplesk{a} psa-spf2{a}
psa-vhost{a} rsync{a} sharutils{a} sqlite3{a} sw-cp-server{a} sw-doctrine{a} sw-engine{a} ttf-dejavu{a}
ttf-dejavu-core{a} ttf-dejavu-extra{a} unzip{a} webalizer{a} x11-common{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgd2-noxpm{a}
0 packages upgraded, 99 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 109MB of archives. After unpacking 329MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
psa: Depends: pp-sitebuilder (>= 5.1.0) which is a virtual package.
exim4-config: Conflicts: postfix but 2.5.5-1.1 is to be installed.
exim4: Depends: exim4-daemon-light but it is not installable or
exim4-daemon-heavy but it is not installable or
exim4-daemon-custom which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
exim4 [Not Installed]
exim4-base [Not Installed]
exim4-config [Not Installed]
psa [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
defoma recommends libft-perl
Score is -10058

Im not quire sure how to proceed. Thanks.

 

[IgorG]

What about correct Plesk installation with official autoinstaller from http://www.parallels.com/download/plesk10/ on minimal installed Lenny server without any changes in sources.list and without any updates?

 

[tomdavidson]

Thanks for the reply IgorG. I took the instructions from http://kb.odin.com/3489 in my search to look for an install method that exploits Debian's package management. It is clearly dated for it references 9.5.3 rather than 10.

Newer versions of Plesk are present at http://autoinstall.plesk.com/ does Parallels support an install and updates via apt-get as suggested in the referenced knowledge base?

Regards, tom

 

[IgorG]

I'm not sure that described in KB article method is actual for 10.x version. It is not described in Installation Guide at least.

 

[tomdavidson]

Do I need to sign up for support to find out about a supported repo? We do not have an automation regime and I expect being able to use Debian's package manager will save us future maintenance overhead.

 

[IgorG]

"defoma recommends libft-perl"
It looks like Debian old bug - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478983
Try to google it - there are a lot of links.

 

[danliker]

i think you have to remove exim first and then try again ...

 

[IgorG]

i think you have to remove exim first and then try again ...

Yes, good idea but I'm not sure that it's so easy due to a lot of dependences...

 

[tomdavidson]

Thank you for the comments. Exim was not installed. Was because I have installed PSA using the one-click installer. The regular installer would not work past the "select version" perhaps is was my console, but the selection could not be made, even q for quit.

Now I am having troubles getting ruby and tomcat to work with PSA and am pretty bummed I couldn't use apt. If its the defoma recommends issue, the PSA installer worked around it or Debian would not be supported at all.

Parallels maintains a Debian installer, Debian packages, an apt repo. Why not support the install and maintenance via apt?