How to Install Zimbra Desktop in Ubuntu

Zimbra Desktop is a great new email and collaboration tool, which comes in the free or premium model. If you use Zimbra Desktop free you can sync and store all emails, calendar, contacts, etc, in the cloud and access locally. Zimbra Desktop aggregates information across accounts (Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) and social networks (Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.) to help make communicating & sharing information easier than ever.

Install Zimbra Desktop on Ubuntu

1.First you need to download Linux package from here www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

2. Extract the content of the package (*.tar.gz) on your Home, Desktop…right click > Extract here

3. Open a terminal and go where you extract zimbra…for example:

$ cd home//Desktop/zdesktop_2_0_1_b10659_linux_i686/

4. from that path run:

$ sudo ./install.pl

5. It will guide you to the Setup Zimbra Desktop > press (A) to accept terms and conditions

6. If you would, accept the default directori where it install

/opt/zimbra/zdesktop

7. Would you like to continue to install files for user: Root? > Here you may want to answer NO…otherwise you always have to log in Zimbra Desktop as superuser.

8. To install data files run this command (always on the same path: ~//Desktop/zdesktop_2_0_1_b10659_linux_i686/):

$ /opt/zimbra/zdesktop//linux/user-install.pl

9. Now you’ll be asked about where to install files, for example:

Home//.zdesktop

(if you put a dot in front zdesktop, it’ll be hidden (ctrl+h) inside your home folder…)

10. And then you’ll be asked about the path where to locate the icon where you’ll launch Zimbra, for example:

/home//Desktop

11. Press enter and configure your accounts. It is a really usefull, and complete aplication. You have tabs to manage facebook, twitter accounts, calendar, tags…

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