On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 20:35, joseverde@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks, I spent many hours last night trying to get Mailman 3 up and running. I am using Ubuntu on a Digital Ocean LAMP droplet (so PHP, Apache, Sql, and Postfix are already installed). The LAMP stack works as I have a successful installation of YOURLS going on.
So, I tried to use this guide ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xIcSsoNFp2nHi7r4eQys00s9a0k2sHhu1V5Plant...) to install the Mailman3 package and got to the configuration screen (the one with all the DOS-esque GUI). I ran it but it kept saying the DB wasn't installed. Was I supposed to create SQL databases and users before running that and use those usernames/databases in the credentials it asks for? It doesn't seem like that in the way it asks the questions (since it asks to create a password) but I wasn't sure.
Anywho, I tried to remove the package completely and restart but I keep spinning my wheels. So my questions:
- Does that guide actually work? Did I just foul up the database part?
- Is there a better way to install mailman3 with some nice step-by-step directions to follow?
- Is there a way to completely wipe my previous installs without wiping the server? ( I didn't back up...silly I know ). I used apt-get --purge remove to uninstall mailman3 and mailman to start over, did that do the trick?
Sorry for all the questions.
DISCLAIMER: I have no experience at all with MM3. I haven't even succeeded in installing it as yet because I am trying to do it manually on FreeBSD. I have an Ubuntu box that runs mailman-2.1.34 manually installed as well, but I am wondering if you tried the following:
root@lists:/home/wash# apt search mailman3 Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done mailman3/bionic 3.2.0-1~ubuntu18.04.1 all [residual-config] Mailing list management system
mailman3-doc/bionic 3.2.0-1~ubuntu18.04.1 all Mailing list management system documentation
mailman3-full/bionic 3.2.0-1~ubuntu18.04.1 all Full Mailman3 mailing list management suite (metapackage)
mailman3-web/bionic 0+20180916-2~ubuntu18.04.1 all [residual-config] Django project integrating Mailman3 Postorius and HyperKitty
python-django-hyperkitty/bionic 1.1.4-4 all Web user interface to access GNU Mailman3 archives
python-django-mailman3/bionic 1.1.0-4 all Django library to help interaction with Mailman3 (Python 2 version)
python-django-postorius/bionic 1.1.2-3 all Web user interface to access GNU Mailman3
python-mailmanclient/bionic 3.1.1-5 all Python bindings for Mailman3 REST API (Python 2 version)
python-mailmanclient-doc/bionic 3.2.0-2~ubuntu18.04.1 all Python bindings for Mailman3 REST API (Documentation)
python3-django-hyperkitty/bionic 1.2.1-3~ubuntu18.04.1 all Web user interface to access GNU Mailman3 archives
python3-django-mailman3/bionic 1.2.0-2~ubuntu18.04.1 all Django library to help interaction with Mailman3 (Python 3 version)
python3-django-postorius/bionic 1.2.2-2~ubuntu18.04.1 all Web user interface to access GNU Mailman3
python3-mailman-hyperkitty/bionic 1.1.0-9~ubuntu18.04.1 all [residual-config] Mailman3 plugin to archive emails with HyperKitty
python3-mailmanclient/bionic 3.2.0-2~ubuntu18.04.1 all Python bindings for Mailman3 REST API (Python 3 version)
root@lists:/home/wash# apt install mailman3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: python3-aiosmtpd python3-alembic python3-dateutil python3-falcon python3-flufl.bounce python3-flufl.i18n python3-flufl.lock python3-lazr.config python3-lazr.delegates python3-mako python3-mimeparse python3-nose python3-passlib python3-psycopg2 python3-public python3-sqlalchemy python3-sqlalchemy-ext python3-zope.configuration python3-zope.i18nmessageid python3-zope.schema Suggested packages: mailman3-doc python3-editor python-flufl.bounce-doc python-flufl.i18n-doc python-flufl.lock-doc python-lazr.config-doc python-lazr.delegates-doc python3-beaker python-mako-doc python-nose-doc python-psycopg2-doc python-public-doc python-sqlalchemy-doc python3-mysqldb python3-fdb python3-zope.testing The following NEW packages will be installed: mailman3 python3-aiosmtpd python3-alembic python3-dateutil python3-falcon python3-flufl.bounce python3-flufl.i18n python3-flufl.lock python3-lazr.config python3-lazr.delegates python3-mako python3-mimeparse python3-nose python3-passlib python3-psycopg2 python3-public python3-sqlalchemy python3-sqlalchemy-ext python3-zope.configuration python3-zope.i18nmessageid python3-zope.schema 0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 2,862 kB of archives. After this operation, 16.7 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Where would that end you???
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