EGroupware

Default and preferred installation method for EGroupware is via your Linux package manager:

• Installation & Update instructions
• Distribution specific instructions

Every other method (including a developer installation by cloning the repo) is way more complicated AND does not include all features, as part's of EGroupware are running in different containers, eg. the push-server!

Installing EGroupware 26 via Docker for non-Linux environments or not supported Linux distros:

EGroupware 26 can be installed via Docker, in fact the DEB/RPM packages also does that. Instructions on how to run EGroupware in Docker are in our Wiki and in doc/docker subdirectory.

Installing EGroupware development version via Docker:

• this is the preferred developer installation, as it contains eg. a push-server container
• https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/tree/master/doc/docker/development

Deprecated EGroupware development installation:

• install composer.phar from https://getcomposer.org/download/
• for JavaScript and CSS dependencies and build install nodejs and npm

apt/yum/zypper install nodejs npm

• install EGroupware and dependencies

cd /path/to/your/docroot
git clone https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware.git # or git@github.com:EGroupware/egroupware.git for ssh
cd egroupware
./install-cli.php

• install non-default EGroupware apps by cloning them into your egroupware directory eg.

cd /path/to/your/egroupware
git clone https://github.com/EGroupware/wiki.git

• continue installation at http://localhost/egroupware/setup/

Keeping EGroupware up to date or switch to release branch:

cd /path/to/your/egroupware
./install-cli.php [<change-channel>]
setup/setup-cli.php # will tell you if a schema-update is necessary

install-cli.php supports the following "channels":

• release: tagged maintenance releases only eg. 26.8.20260804
• bugfix: release-branch incl. latest bugfixes eg. 26, if you are currently on 26.8.20260804
• <branch>: switch to given branch
• master: latest development for next release

To change the channel, call install-cli.php <channel-to-update-to>.

For further installation instructions see our wiki.