[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Experience installing on Debian 12.9 (overall positive with one suggestion!)

[Chris Dailey]

Hi, folks,

I just wanted to give some feedback on our experience installing Roundcube.

Background:  In our spare time (a few hours each Monday night), we are 
upgrading an old 32-bit version of Debian by creating a new 64-bit 
machine and installing a recent Debian while keeping the data in sync 
with the old machine.  We have been trying for months to get php-horde 
working, and finally gave up on it; roundcube seemed like the best bet 
after that.  We had already had mariadb installed.

We ran the installer (aptitude install roundcube roundcube-mysql) which 
installed the database and user automagically (awesome!).

We ran into an error when trying to access the website (Uncaught Error: 
Undefined constant PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_FOUND_ROWS in 
/usr/share/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/db/mysql.php:132).  We found 
out that we did not have a lot of packages in php8.4.   So with some 
searching, some guessing of which packages were needed, and the help of 
this web page 
<https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/install-roundcube-webmail-debian-apache-nginx>, 
we ended up installing these additional packages:

libapache2-mod-php8.4 php-net-ldap2 php-net-ldap3 php8.4-fpm php8.4-gd 
php8.4-imap php8.4-curl php8.4-zip php8.4-xml php8.4-mbstring php8.4-bz2 
php8.4-intl php8.4-gmp php8.4-redis

After that, the site worked!  User logins, viewing email, etc. worked!  
(We ran out of time before testing sending email.)

It would be nice if most of those dependencies were included in the 
respective packages so the initial install line we did would have 
included everything we needed.

While we have not yet fully tested everything, but we are very impressed 
so far!  Great job to all of you!

Best regards,
Chris
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