Kevin is correct, and those packages should be installed.
However the commands he gives are slightly off, unless there have been
major changes in the module-assistant command. The most foolproof way to
get the openafs module installed for the kernal is to do the following as
root, once the packages Kevin mentioned have been installed:
# aptitude install module-assistant
# m-a prepare
# m-a -t a-i openafs-module
# aptitude install openafs-client
# /etc/init.d/openafs-client restart
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Kevin Sumner wrote:
Hey David,
It will depend on if they're actually running Debian or a Debian variant.
Debian and Ubuntu both have packagings of OpenAFS in their Apt repositories.
For basic getting tickets Kerberos 5 tickets and generating tokens (kinit &&
aklog) and poking around AFS, you'll need these packages from the standard
Debian repositories (on Ubuntu, I think these are in the universe repository,
but don't quote me on that):
krb5-config
krb5-doc
krb5-user
libpam-afs-session
openafs-client
openafs-doc
openafs-krb5
Debian is similar, if not the same as the above packages. If you need more
help on packages for site-specific things, you can check `aptitude search
afs`. You will also need to build and install a kernel module. On Debian or
Ubuntu:
aptitude install module-assistant
module-assistant prepare openafs-modules
module-assistant -a -i openafs-modules
Kernel modules need to be rebuilt every time you upgrade the kernel.
This is kind of a shotgun-blast that covers the most very basic. As for
using OpenAFS on Linux, Debian has made installs much easier. My two biggest
complaints are still rebuilding the module for every new minor kernel change
and afsd blocking or stalling boot when it doesn't have an IP address,
particularly for laptops, although this last one may have been addressed
recently.
Cheers!
Kevin
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David Bear wrote:
One of the biggest pains with openafs is getting it in an install package
for linux -- yes, red hat rpms are available at openafs.org
<http://openafs.org> -- but every other year when I update my Suse Desktop,
I have to search for rpm's to get it installed in Suse ..
Yes, there are problems with vendors and the way the distribute their linux
de jour .... and today that linux is Debian.
One of our students bought an eeepc (cute laptop, under 3 points, with a
debian variant), wanting to get openafs running.
Can anyone tell me where we might find an openafs deb package ?? AND how
to make apt-get openafs grab everything needfull for a client install
(included the kernel module) work?
I'm a debian idiot ... BTW, we did find something at debian.org
<http://debian.org> that suggested adding a repository to an /etc/apt...
forgot the name -- but it didn't work.
Sorry this is a half rant... I just hate how much work it is to use openafs
on linux..
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College of Public Programs at ASU
602-464-0424
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