Not sure where to post this but thought I would share in case any others are having the same issue.
Problem was I could not connect with Spark, constantly gave the error “internal-server-error”
The problem is that the current version of Openfire for Debian/Ubuntu requires JRE 7 or it won’t install, however it won’t work unless JRE 8 is installed.
The only way to get the server to work correct is to install JRE 7 > install Openfire > install JRE 8
The dependencies in the package need to be updated.