Support for Ubuntu 22.04

[=NickJ=]

Hi all, I was wondering whether support for Ubuntu 22.04 was on the roadmap (I searched and couldn't find anything)? I've had a fairly decent amount of success but there's probably things I've missed so I was hoping to wait for it to be official before using it in production. Quick summary of the steps I needed to take to get DA to install:

• Edit /etc/debian_release to be bullseye/sid instead of bookworm/sid due to setup.sh not recognising Debian 12-based distros yet
• PHP needs to be set to 8.1 due to OpenSSL 3.0 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81540&edit=1
• Exim is the biggest issue, OpenSSL 3.0 is again not supported in 4.95 so I have been testing with 4.96-RC0:
  • Switch from PCRE to PCRE2 in 4.96 means the Makefile needs updating from PCRE_LIBS=-lpcre to PCRE_LIBS=-lpcre2-8 https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/22ed7a5295f196fce32563f6e9c669110dd36f4d
  • SRS components appear to have been removed entirely in 4.96 so exim_conf needs updating to remove these https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/b07d141af23f2ab160eba2b58a834baee513b3f8

I have been able to get a working install set up by:

• Building a custom tarball of 4.96-RC0 and manual editing versions.txt to match the md5 to get it to install
• Creating a custom Makefile as documented to include the new PCRE2 libs
• Install exim_conf but rm -rf /etc/exim.srs* and comment out the single srs_ block in exim.conf

I haven't been able to verify whether this actually works for receiving mail yet but the service starts and I can run exim --version without errors.

Any pointers towards any glaring mistakes here would be great.

Thanks

 

[Zhenyapan]

I think compatibility will come after first hotfix in July, 22.04.1
Till August there is no sense put it to production.

 

[thesilentman]

I have to set up a new system within the next 2 weeks and would like to use 22.04, too. Any official info on this?

 

[wtptrs]

I would not use Ubuntu 22.04 in production yet. It's not listed as a supported OS (https://docs.directadmin.com/getting-started/installation/overview.html), so probably hasn't been tested thoroughly. If you prefer a Debian-based environment, I would recommend Debian 11, but Ubuntu 20.04 should be fine as well.

 

[=NickJ=]

I decided to go with Debian 11 instead in the end which actually makes much more sense, it was only released last August so has had about 8 months in the wild which is perfect from a new vs. stable perspective. I also use Python extensively so having 3.9 in Debian 11 vs. 3.8 in Ubuntu 20.04 really swung it for me.

 

[smtalk]

• Edit /etc/debian_release to be bullseye/sid instead of bookworm/sid due to setup.sh not recognising Debian 12-based distros yet
• PHP needs to be set to 8.1 due to OpenSSL 3.0 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81540&edit=1

These 2 have been fixed in latest version of CustomBuild and installation scripts. Exim is yet to be fixed (when they release 4.96).

 

[=NickJ=]

Awesome thanks

 

[smtalk]

New installs should work fine on Ubuntu 22.04 now. I'd like to note PHP 8.1 is the only version supported at this time.