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Setting up deltachat chatmail relay on Ubuntu instead of Debian
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- Name
- Peter Peerdeman
- @peterpeerdeman
As I was experimenting with the mail and PGP protocol based instant messenger deltachat, I wanted to run the relay setup on an up-to-date Ubuntu box instead of the prescribed debian image.How different can these platforms be right? Turns out it works fine, with a couple of modifications:
installing missing debian12 packages
Turns out there are a couple packages missing that are needed, libicu72, libtextcat, libtextcat-data and liblua. Download and install them with the following commands:
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/icu/libicu72_72.1-3+deb12u1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libicu72_72.1-3+deb12u1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libe/libexttextcat/libexttextcat-2.0-0_3.4.7-1+b1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libexttextcat-2.0-0_3.4.7-1+b1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libe/libexttextcat/libexttextcat-data_3.4.7-1_all.deb
dpkg -i libexttextcat-data_3.4.7-1_all.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua5.4/liblua5.4-0_5.4.8-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i liblua5.4-0_5.4.8-1_amd64.deb
clearing port 53
Next up, make sure that port 53 isn't in use by what turns out to be the DNSStub listener that runs by default on Ubuntu images.
- edit the file at
/etc/systemd/resolved.conf - set
DNSStubListener=no - run
systemctl restart systemd-resolved
After these modification, you should be able to continue installation as documented