Install Plesk 8.1 on Ubuntu?

[JoeyAngrisano]

SWSoft indicates that they support Plesk 8.1 on Ubuntu and there's a variety of different installers out there however I can't seem to get it installed. Has anyone had any luck? My preference is something that works with apt as so I can manage the install via synaptic. With that in mind I've focused most of my effort on trying to get Plesk installed via .deb packages. The only deb packages I could locate were from:

http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.1.0/dist-deb-Ubuntu-6.06-i386/

Within this directory there's about 10-12 .deb files (ignoring lower versions of the same file). Through trial and error I've gotten seven of these packages to install however I've hit a dependancy roadblock and can't get any further. The psa-api won't install because it depends on psa-8.1.0 however the psa-8.1.0 won't install because it depends on the psa-api.

Now although I see the humor in this little game of dependancy musical chairs it's growing old quick. Any advice? The debs don't seem to work, the autoinstaller doesn't work and even a make-install didn't work. I'm on Ubuntu Edgy currently though I've also tried Dapper with no success. I've also searched the forums here but couldn't find much on Ubuntu at all.

 

[ArizonaSky]

Did you use the Ubuntu autoinstaller from this page and on a clean server?

http://www.swsoft.com/en/download/plesk8/

Eddgy isn't supported by Plesk only 6.06 and 5.10.

Worked fine for me. My servers have been extremely stable since moving over to Ubuntu. I installed Plesk 8.1 on numerous clean Ubuntu 6.06 servers and no problems other than a month or so ago when Plesk's autoinstaller had some errors and the install failed. Took Plesk quite a while to fix it and was very frustrating.

Only thing to note is that the install always hangs for a few minutes when trying to start apache but then the install continues fine after that little delay.

I tried to install Ubuntu with the .deb files when Plesk was having that autoinstaller problem but gave up when I could not find all the dependencies they mention in the setup instructions.

 

[JamesG]

@ArizonaSky: what about quota support on Ubuntu?
For example: Debian's Kernel does not support quota...

 

[ArizonaSky]

Not too familiar with quotas so don't have anything on that...

Well I guess Plesk does support Ubuntu 6.10 now with the latest release.

 

[JoeyAngrisano]

I was finally able to get Plesk on this box after wiping my drive and clean installing Ubuntu 6.0.6. Of course even then it took several attempts using the autoinstaller to get it to work. Here's what went wrong. When I first installed I forgot to set the universe and multiverse repositories. This caused the Plesk install to fail almost instantly. With this in mind I fixed the issue and tried installing again. No good. The install would get so far and then fail repeatedly.

After poking around it turns out that if the Plesk install fails it leaves by all kinds of traces of the install on your system and breaks apt. Reparing apt and manually removing the users that Plesk creates seemed to do the trick. After that I was finally able to do an install. It seems to work fine now. So all I need is a license to run more than one site. I plan on using the server as a local backup for my VPS.

 

[ArizonaSky]

Glad that you got it installed. I've had that problem when I was using other distros but not with Ubuntu so far except for that Plesk created issue a few months back. 90% of my server issues seem to always be related to Plesk.

By the way the apt-get updates and upgrades have worked nicely too with no problems so far.

I haven't updated my test server to 8.1.1 yet as there seem to be a lot of posts with issues, what's new?