Greetings - my first posting. The quick synopsis is: "Someone HAS to have installed OSCAR 5.1rc1 successfully on Fedora 9 x86_64 by now - I've read the threads and tried repeatedly but cannot. Please help". I am not a complete linux newbie.
Please read on. I've now been at this for several days and have hit a wall. I'm building a cluster of 16+1 Intel quad-cores for some in-house HPC and have chosen OSCAR to provide the infrastructure, on Fedora 9 because we've supported Fedora since its inception, it's familiar, and Fedora has worked as a distro for (smaller) clusters I've made (by hand) in the past. So, on top of a fresh (non-updated) install of Fedora 9 on the master node, I've been attempting to install what the OSCAR site and SOURCEFORGE both seem to consider the latest (safe, not a nightly-build) release, 5.1rc1 I downloaded oscar-repo-fc-9-x86_64-5.1rc1.tar.gz and oscar-repo-common-rpms-5.1rc1.tar.gz, unpacked them into /tftpboot/oscar/, provided a copy of my entire Fedora 9 distro DVD in /tftpboot/distro/fedora-9-x86_64, etc., following the instructions in http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide At this point this posting will look almost identical to one made on Aug 31 by Munkhzorig Gankhuyag and discussed/answered by Allan Menezes et al. (http://www.mail-archive.com/oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07168.html); "I resolved all errors" (in my case this means, among other things, adding a "|9" to [fedora*:5|6|7|8:*] in /opt/oscar/packages/yume/prereq.cfg, or manually install perl-IO-Tty and perl-AppConfig because this wasn't happening automatically) "but still can't solve this error: [...] ============================================================================= == Running OSCAR wizard_prep script ============================================================================= --> Bootstrapping OSCAR smart package manager Undefined subroutine &OSCAR::PackageSmart::prepare_pools called at ./wizard_prep line 185. eval require PackageSmart returned No such file or directory --> Checking OSCAR repositories existence. Oscar Wizard preparation script failed to complete (cd /opt/oscar/scripts && ./wizard_prep) at ./install_cluster line 285. " That thread ended with "export PERL5LIB properly so attempts by perl to load local OSCAR modules will work (ie., "#export PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/opt/oscar/lib/" in the shell you're working in) and the thread appeared resolved/closed. Unfortunately, by itself this advice is a step in the right direction (allows, eg., "use PackagePath;" in wizard_prep to work) but does not solve the problem. The best I can determine so far is that PackMan needs to be in there, too, but isn't provided by what I downloaded. The distro.url exists so the installer can run off to get things not in the distro directory. Rather than continue to burn more time chasing this down, please enlighten me as to how I can even begin the installation process for OSCAR 5.1rc1 on Fedora 9. Someone on this list must've done this. I've even contemplated backing up to Fedora 8 (which seems "more supported"), though we're on the eve of the release of 10. Thanks in advance, Chris ====================================================================== "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
