Lacking symlinks prevent config scripts from running

[Roland Giesler]

I have installed roundcube and roundcube-psql on Ubuntu 20.04 from the packages. At the top of /etc/apache2/conf-available/roundcube.conf there is a single alias which I have uncommented.

    # Uncomment them to use it or adapt them to your configuration
    Alias /roundcube /var/lib/roundcube

After reloading Apache, the login screen works in a browser when I load http://ipaddress/roundcube, but the /usr/share/roundcube/installer/config.php file cannot be found by http://ipaddress/roundcube/installer/config.php.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Roundcube says there should be two alias lines to uncomment, but in the latest source code of Roundcube there's only one alias.

Roundcube is installed into /usr/share/roundcube, but there are symlinks in /var/lib/roundcube as below:

    lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 14 Feb 24 2020 config -> /etc/roundcube
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 30 Feb 24 2020 index.php -> /usr/share/roundcube/index.php
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 19 Feb 24 2020 logs -> ../../log/roundcube
    drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 21 17:16 plugins
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 28 Feb 24 2020 program -> /usr/share/roundcube/program
    drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 21 17:16 skins
    drwxr-x--- 2 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 24 2020 temp

There's index.php linking to /usr/share/roundcube/index.php, but not to the setup scripts. So I added the following symlink:

    installer -> /usr/share/roundcube/installer

This allows the installer to run, but on the "create config" step, nothing is generated, so clearly there are more missing links ;-)

This seems like a bug in the package to me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: roundcube 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1
ProcVersionSignature:

Uname: Linux 5.15.19-2-pve x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Wed Mar 23 16:04:57 2022
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: roundcube
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)