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Good Morning.

I want to know when installing a Openfire server, do Openfire and database on the same server or put them apart?
What operating system preferred Ubuntu or Debian?
Thanks

There is no recommendation for this. It is your choice whether to have local or remote database (first one probably easier for backups, latter is more secure). When using Openfire 4.0.2+ you will need Java 8. Debian still doesn’t have Java 8 as offical package, so you will need to install Oracle’s Java 8, which is maybe easier on Ubuntu, but i haven’t ever used Debian, so can’t say how different it is. Other than that there is no difference really what distribution to use.

Hi Sr @wroot, I have another question.

I installed Debian 4.0.2 Openfire 8 with openjdk-7-jre package and everyone else that asks to install. Now what happens is that when you charge the

plugins monitoring.jar and openfire loadstats.jar and restart the service, I get what is in the following images.

You need to install java 8.

Mr @wroot

So for that it would be recommended as Ubuntu operating system?

Thank you

I don’t know whether it is possible or not to install java 8 on Debian (i think it should be, but not from official stable repository). I know for sure that you can install java 8 from a non official ppa on Ubuntu.

Good Morning @wroot
I have as OS and Ubuntu Server 16.04_64bits, I installed openjdk-8.jre but when I go to run the package openfire out the following:

Seleccionando el paquete openfire previamente no seleccionado.

dpkg: acerca de openfire_4.0.2_all.deb que contiene openfire, problema de predependencia:

openfire predepende de openjdk-7-jre-headless | openjdk-7-jre | oracle-java7-jre

openjdk-7-jre-headless no está instalado.

openjdk-7-jre no está instalado.

oracle-java7-jre no está instalado.

dpkg: error al procesar el archivo openfire_4.0.2_all.deb (–install):

problema de predependencia - no se instala openfire

Se encontraron errores al procesar:

openfire_4.0.2_all.deb

Regards,

Dionny

Yes, that’s the problem in the 4.0.2 version (should be fixed in 4.0.3). It requires Java 7 to install, but won’t run correctly with Java 7. So you need to have java 7 to install, then remove it and install Java 8 to run it.

P.S. no need to mention my name in every message. I get additional notifications because of that.

When I try to install 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 openfire look what throws me the installation.
I clarified already installed openjdk-8-jdk and openjdk-8-jre

root @ jabber: / home / jabber # dpkg -i openfire_4.0.2_all.deb
dpkg: about openfire_4.0.2_all.deb containing openfire, predependencia problem:
openfire predepende of openjdk-7-jre-headless | openjdk-7-jre | oracle-Java7-jre
openjdk-7-jre-headless is not installed.
openjdk-7-jre is not installed.
oracle-Java7-jre is not installed.

dpkg: error processing the file openfire_4.0.2_all.deb (–install):
predependencia problem - not installed openfire
Errors were encountered while processing:
openfire_4.0.2_all.deb

root @ jabber: / home / jabber # java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-8u91-b14-0ubuntu4 ~ 16.04.1-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)

Thank you

@wroot

Good afternoon

When I try to install 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 openfire look what throws me the installation.
I clarified already installed openjdk-8-jdk and openjdk-8-jre

root @ jabber: / home / jabber # dpkg -i openfire_4.0.2_all.deb
dpkg: about openfire_4.0.2_all.deb containing openfire, predependencia problem:
openfire predepende of openjdk-7-jre-headless | openjdk-7-jre | oracle-Java7-jre
openjdk-7-jre-headless is not installed.
openjdk-7-jre is not installed.
oracle-Java7-jre is not installed.

dpkg: error processing the file openfire_4.0.2_all.deb (–install):
predependencia problem - not installed openfire
Errors were encountered while processing:
openfire_4.0.2_all.deb

root @ jabber: / home / jabber # java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-8u91-b14-0ubuntu4 ~ 16.04.1-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)

Thank you

I’ve already explained you this 3 times. Just use 4.0.1…