Plesk Auto-Installer is a utility used by Plesk control panel for retrieving and installing software updates and upgrades . This article describes how to install software’s from back-end .
Lets see how to install webmail using autoinstaller . Control Panel shows webmail is not installed and is grayed out .
1) Ssh to your server .
2) Search for the binary autoinstaller. Most probably it should be under /usr/local/psa/bin/
# cd /usr/local/psa/bin/
3) Check for various options available .
[root@admin /usr/local/psa/admin/bin]# ./autoinstaller –help
It should list something like
Usage: parallels_installer [OPTIONS]
Product and operating system updates source:
–source <URL or absolute path to .inf3 file>
URL (http://your-mirror.com/) or absolute path
to an .inf3 file on your hard disk.
Examples:
‘http://autoinstall-ctp.plesk.com/’
‘/root/parallels/PSA_8.1.0/plesk-8.1.0-deb3.1-i386.inf3′
–disable-plesk-sys-updates
Do not use operating system updates shipped
with Plesk and other product(s)
–add-source <type,priority,url[,username,environment variable with password]>
Specify the additional source of packages.
You can specify either of the following source
types: repodata, directory.
Examples:
‘repomd,500,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/fedora/updates/2/i386′
‘directory,500,/mnt/updates’
–show-additional-source-types
Show possible source types for –add-source
–show-additional-sources
Show the additional sources you configured
Proxy server options:
–proxy-host <host> When using a proxy server or a firewall, use this
option to specify the proxy server’s domain name
or IP address.
–proxy-port <port> Default port for connecting to proxy server is 3128.
If your proxy server uses a different port number,
you should specify it using this option.
–proxy-user <user> Set username for authorization at the proxy server
–proxy-password <password>
Set password for authorization at the proxy server
Select a product version:
–select-product-id <product id>
Select the product name
(‘plesk’ (by default) or ‘sitebuilder’)
–select-release-id <release id>
Use this option to specify the product version that you
want to install or whose properties you want to view.
–select-release-latest
Select the latest product version available for
your operating system
–select-release-current
Select the same product version as the one installed
on your machine
Options for selecting components:
–install-component <component id>
Install the product component with specified
identifier
–install-everything
Install all components of the selected product version
–upgrade-installed-components
Upgrade all installed components of the selected
product version
Installer options:
–allow-kernel-install
Allow kernel upgrade. By default, the auto-installer
does not make any kernel upgrades.
Note that auto-installer installs new kernels to the system, leaving the older
kernel aside so that you can revert to it at any time.
–ignore-key-errors
Allow upgrading product even if upgrade of the license
key fails.
–use-existing-ports
FreeBSD specific option
(You may want to use this to prepare the machine for installing the product.)
–no-space-check Install packages even if you are low on disk space.
Use the following options for selecting and installing packages,
and setting up mirrors:
–show-releases Specify this option to retrieve a list of available
product versions for the operating system where the
auto-installer is executed. You will be given a list
of release identifiers and release descriptions.
The release identifiers are what you will need to
deal with.
–show-all-releases This option shows all product versions available from
the official product updates server.
–show-os-list Use this option to find out on which operating systems
the product version you selected can run.
–show-components Use this option to obtain the information on the
components available for the selected product version.
Components descriptions and names will be displayed.
The component names are what you need to specify when
selecting additional components to install.
–show-packages Show additional packages required for installation of
selected components.
–mirror-os <id> This option activates the mirroring feature in
auto-installer. If you want to mirror product versions
for different operating systems, you should specify
this option per each operating system.
–install-package <name>
Install package with specified name
Options for interaction with other software:
–enable-xml-output Specify this option to have all output of
auto-installer in XML format. Note that this option
disallows auto-installer to report errors by exit code.
Exit code is always zero and all errors are reported
inside XML output.
–query-status Use this option to find out if auto-installer is
active. This will return either an exit code
(0 – auto-installer is idle, 1 – auto-installer is
running and busy), or XML-formatted output.
–check-updates Specify this option to check the updates server for
updates applicable to your product version.
A list of releases that you can update or upgrade to
will be shown.
–no-daemon Perform installation process in the foreground
–web-interface Opens the Web-based installation wizard in
a Web browser.
–ssl-cert <file.pem>
Specifies the path to the SSL certificate file that
should be used for securing connections.
–without-ssl Specifies that connections to the Web-based
installation wizard will not be secured.
FreeBSD specific options:
–cvsup-host <hostname>
Hostname of CVS server for retrieving updates for
FreeBSD ports
Override operating system detection results:
–override-os-name <arg>
Override detected operating system name
–override-os-vendor <arg>
Override detected operating system vendor
–override-os-version <arg>
Override detected operating system version
–override-os-arch <arg>
Override detected operating system architecture
–override-environment <arg>
Override detected environment
(possible values are ‘dedicated’, ‘vz’, ‘vserver’)
Interactive user interface options:
–no-clear Do not clear screen when moving between wizard’s pages
General options:
–target <dir> The directory where downloaded files must be stored.
–notify-email <email>
Use this option to have the auto-installer send you
status reports by e-mail. A successful completion
report includes a list of installed or upgraded
packages with a detailed log.
–truncate-log Clear log file on auto-installer start
–separate-log Use new log file for each start of auto-installer
–debug Turn on detailed output into log file
–version Show auto-installer’s version
–usage,
–help Show this help page
That clearly shows what does each option do .
You can see all the product versions using :-
[root@admin /usr/local/psa/admin/bin]# ./autoinstaller –show-all-releases
Downloading the file products.inf3: 100% done.
Downloading the file plesk.inf3: 10%..21%..30%..41%..50%..61%..70%..81%..90%..100% done.
Downloading the file ppsmbe.inf3: 76%..100% done.
Downloading the file sitebuilder.inf3: 15%..35%..55%..96%..100% done.
Downloading the file sso.inf3: 10%..24%..37%..51%..64%..78%..91%..100% done.
Downloading the file setemplates.inf3: 38%..87%..100% done.
— prod_id release_id (description) —
plesk PLESK_9_2_3 (Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2.3)
plesk PLESK_9_2_2 (Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2.2)
plesk PLESK_9_2_1 (Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2.1)
plesk PLESK_9_0_1 (Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1)
plesk PLESK_9_0_0 (Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.0)
plesk PLESK_8_6_0 (Plesk 8.6.0)
plesk PLESK_7_5_4 (Plesk 7.5.4)
plesk PLESK_8_0_0 (Plesk 8.0.0)
plesk PLESK_8_0_1 (Plesk 8.0.1)
plesk PLESK_8_1_0 (Plesk 8.1.0)
plesk PLESK_8_1_1 (Plesk 8.1.1)
plesk PLESK_8_2_0 (Plesk 8.2.0)
plesk PLESK_8_2_1 (Plesk 8.2.1)
plesk PLESK_8_3_0 (Plesk 8.3.0)
plesk PLESK_8_4_0 (Plesk 8.4.0)
ppsmbe PPSMBE_10_0_0 (Parallels Small Business Panel 10.0.0)
sitebuilder SB_4_5_0 (Sitebuilder 4.5.0)
sso SSO_2_0 (SSO 2.0)
sso SSO_2_1 (SSO 2.1)
To retrieve a list of components for the “selected product version”, you can use
[root@admin /usr/local/psa/admin/bin]# ./autoinstaller –select-release-id PLESK_8_6_0 –show-components
Here I have selected product version as PLESK_8_6_0 Or else with the current release if I need to see what all components can be installed and what are already installed .
4 ) [root@admin /usr/local/psa/admin/bin]# ./autoinstaller –select-release-current –show-components
Downloading the file products.inf3: 100% done.
Downloading the file plesk.inf3: 10%..21%..30%..41%..50%..61%..70%..81%..90%..100% done.
Downloading the file ppsmbe.inf3: 33%..76%..100% done.
Downloading the file sitebuilder.inf3: 15%..35%..55%..96%..100% done.
Downloading the file sso.inf3: 10%..24%..37%..64%..78%..100% done.
Downloading the file setemplates.inf3: 38%..87%..100% done.
Checking for installed packages…
Downloading the file PSA_9.2.3/plesk-9.2.3-fr6.1-i386.inf3: 12%..21%..30%..44%..53%..71%..80%..93%..100% done.
Preparing ports for product installation:
Removing unnecessary packages from the system.
done
Preparing ports for product installation:
Deploying product ports…
Downloading the file PSA_9.2.3/dist-pkg-FreeBSD-6.1-i386/ports/ports-common.tar.gz: 10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% done.
Downloading the file PSA_9.2.3/dist-pkg-FreeBSD-6.1-i386/ports/psa-ports-9.2.3.tar.gz: 10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% done.
done
Re-installing port ‘swsoft/ports-common’…done
Detecting installed product components.
Detecting installed product components.
base [up2date] – Base packages of Plesk
psa-autoinstaller [up2date] – Plesk Updater
postgresql [up2date] – PostgreSQL server support
vault [install] – Application vault packages
ppwse [install] – Plesk Professional Web Site Editor
api [up2date] – Plesk API [former Plesk Agent]
pmm-ded [install] – Plesk migration manager
sb-publish [install] – SiteBuilder publishing support for Plesk
sbm [install] – SiteBuilder module migration suite
miva [install] – Miva Empresa support
billing [install] – Plesk billing
mod-bw [install] – Bandwidth Limiter For Apache support (mod_bw)
asp [install] – Apache ASP support
java [install] – Tomcat Java Servlets support
mod_python [install] – Apache mod_python module
ruby [install] – Ruby on Rails support
php4 [install] – PHP4 support
php5 [up2date] – PHP5 support
qmail [up2date] – Qmail mailserver
postfix [install] – Postfix mailserver
psa-firewall [install] – Plesk Firewall module
psa-vpn [install] – Plesk VPN module
psa-fileserver [install] – Plesk Fileserver module and SMB file server package
sshterm [install] – SSHTerm – SSH Terminal java applet
watchdog [install] – Watchdog (System monitoring module)
mailman [up2date] – Mailman mailing list manager support
kav [install] – Kaspersky antivirus module
drweb [up2date] – Dr. Web antivirus
spamassassin [install] – SpamAssassin support
backup-ded [install] – Plesk Backup Manager
de-DE-locale [install] – German language pack
ja-JP-locale [install] – Japanese language pack
es-ES-locale [install] – Spanish language pack
ru-RU-locale [install] – Russian language pack
fr-FR-locale [install] – French language pack
it-IT-locale [install] – Italian language pack
zh-CN-locale [install] – Chinese language pack for China
zh-TW-locale [install] – Chinese language pack for Taiwan
nl-NL-locale [install] – Dutch language pack for Netherlands
horde [install] – Horde webmail support
atmail [install] – AtMail webmail support
If you want to install backup for the selected product version PLESK_8_6_0 , use
./autoinstaller –select-release-id PLESK_8_6_0 –install-component backup-ded
(Give the correct component name shown under show-components.It may vary)
Or for the current release if you need webmail
5) [root@admin /usr/local/psa/admin/bin]# ./autoinstaller –select-release-current –install-component horde
After this completes you should be able to access webmail .
More details on downloading the auto-installer binary can be found here .
P.S Before you start , always take the backup of plesk psa database , just in case if anything went wrong . ‘Better safe than sorry’ 
cd /var/lib/mysql
mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa > psabackup.sql
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