Re: [U2] RHEL 6.x and Universe Package Requirements
I think I can help... If you do an install from the RHEL installer, select customize now, and you'll be able to see everything that can be installed. You just simply un-check what you do not want. Start with the base server package. However, if this is a 64 bit install, or x86_64 they call it. You should be aware that you will have to install some 32 bit libraries needed by Universe/Unidata. These are as follows: Rocket has a little paper on this that my vendor sent me, BUT, it uses rpm, and rpm has been deprecated with RHEL 6. You now need to run everything through yum (the package manager). So to be safe, do the following: yum search package name you are looking for yum install package name you need The ones you are going to need are most likely going to end with an .i686 indicating that it is a 32 bit package. Universe/Unidata has the following requirements. So do a yum search for these packages. glibc nss-softokn-freebl ncurses-libs audit-libs cracklib db4-4 libselinux pam sssd libgcc libstdc gdbm Then install any i686 counterparts you may need. If it is installed, when you try to yum install it, it will tell you its already installed. Again, don't use rpm, because yum will make your life easier. If the Universe/Unidata install fails, it will tell you what library is missing. To be safe and start the installation over just remove... /usr/uv/unishared.load /usr/uv/HS.BP.O (or the entire uv directory and start again) Also, here is some info from the Rocket paper that is more up to date. General RHEL 6 Information Note: Depending on your company guidelines some of these may be skipped: - The GUI interface needs a minimum of 1GB of RAM (System RAM not dedicated Video RAM) - Under the Desktops option, select all options (not including all optional packages) or all options except KDE to get GUI interface to work. Or, select the 'Software Development Workstation' installation type. - The firewall service is running by default, use the GUI interface to disable/configure it. - SELinux is running by default. To disable, edit the /etc/selinux/config file. Change the first uncommented line to 'SELINUX=disabled'. Reboot. Note: vsftpd wasn't able to connect by default until SELinux was disabled. There may be some way to get this to work, but it was not pursued further. - rsh, rsh-server, telnet, telnet-server, xinetd are part of the 'Base System - Legacy Unix Compatibility' install package option. SSH tends to be the standard connectivity now. - The 'ftp' client is in the 'Base System - Console Internet Tools' package option. - Enabling root via telnet and vsftpd is the same as previous RHEL versions. Specific to UniVerse: - UV 10.3 still uses the uncompress command. This is changed at UV 11.1 to use gunzip instead. For UV 10.3 installs, run the command 'ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress'. - Add the line 'uvrpc 31438/tcp' to the /etc/services file. This is used for UniDK/UniAdmin type connections. UniData adds the uvrpc entry by default. On the SELINUX thing, when you change that option, you will have to reboot. The only way to disable SELINUX on install, is to append a kernel option before you boot the installer. Just hit the spacebar to bring up the menu Hit a Then in the grub config, type: selinux=0 and hit Enter I have a GNOME desktop on my machine for convenience because RAM is cheap nowadays (and thats the only thing it really takes up) and it makes life easier on some things, BUT, you do not need it. Why Rocket can't just build their own yum package to do this is beyond me, but, oh well, such is life. Hope that helps. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Phil Walker p...@gnosys.co.nz wrote: Hi all, I am installing Universe on a system which already had RHEL 6 installed on and whoever installed it pretty much install all packages so it is very bloated. Can someone provide me with a list of packages that they have installed on the RHEL 6 server? I realise there will be subtle differences depending on customisation/programming, but I would suspect that mah-jong might be missing Cheers Phil. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- John Thompson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] RHEL 6.x and Universe Package Requirements
This may help you with yum too. This came from the Red Hat portal that you get access to with support. I hope you can still view it. https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-2531 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:52 AM, John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.comwrote: I think I can help... If you do an install from the RHEL installer, select customize now, and you'll be able to see everything that can be installed. You just simply un-check what you do not want. Start with the base server package. However, if this is a 64 bit install, or x86_64 they call it. You should be aware that you will have to install some 32 bit libraries needed by Universe/Unidata. These are as follows: Rocket has a little paper on this that my vendor sent me, BUT, it uses rpm, and rpm has been deprecated with RHEL 6. You now need to run everything through yum (the package manager). So to be safe, do the following: yum search package name you are looking for yum install package name you need The ones you are going to need are most likely going to end with an .i686 indicating that it is a 32 bit package. Universe/Unidata has the following requirements. So do a yum search for these packages. glibc nss-softokn-freebl ncurses-libs audit-libs cracklib db4-4 libselinux pam sssd libgcc libstdc gdbm Then install any i686 counterparts you may need. If it is installed, when you try to yum install it, it will tell you its already installed. Again, don't use rpm, because yum will make your life easier. If the Universe/Unidata install fails, it will tell you what library is missing. To be safe and start the installation over just remove... /usr/uv/unishared.load /usr/uv/HS.BP.O (or the entire uv directory and start again) Also, here is some info from the Rocket paper that is more up to date. General RHEL 6 Information Note: Depending on your company guidelines some of these may be skipped: - The GUI interface needs a minimum of 1GB of RAM (System RAM not dedicated Video RAM) - Under the Desktops option, select all options (not including all optional packages) or all options except KDE to get GUI interface to work. Or, select the 'Software Development Workstation' installation type. - The firewall service is running by default, use the GUI interface to disable/configure it. - SELinux is running by default. To disable, edit the /etc/selinux/config file. Change the first uncommented line to 'SELINUX=disabled'. Reboot. Note: vsftpd wasn't able to connect by default until SELinux was disabled. There may be some way to get this to work, but it was not pursued further. - rsh, rsh-server, telnet, telnet-server, xinetd are part of the 'Base System - Legacy Unix Compatibility' install package option. SSH tends to be the standard connectivity now. - The 'ftp' client is in the 'Base System - Console Internet Tools' package option. - Enabling root via telnet and vsftpd is the same as previous RHEL versions. Specific to UniVerse: - UV 10.3 still uses the uncompress command. This is changed at UV 11.1 to use gunzip instead. For UV 10.3 installs, run the command 'ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress'. - Add the line 'uvrpc 31438/tcp' to the /etc/services file. This is used for UniDK/UniAdmin type connections. UniData adds the uvrpc entry by default. On the SELINUX thing, when you change that option, you will have to reboot. The only way to disable SELINUX on install, is to append a kernel option before you boot the installer. Just hit the spacebar to bring up the menu Hit a Then in the grub config, type: selinux=0 and hit Enter I have a GNOME desktop on my machine for convenience because RAM is cheap nowadays (and thats the only thing it really takes up) and it makes life easier on some things, BUT, you do not need it. Why Rocket can't just build their own yum package to do this is beyond me, but, oh well, such is life. Hope that helps. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Phil Walker p...@gnosys.co.nz wrote: Hi all, I am installing Universe on a system which already had RHEL 6 installed on and whoever installed it pretty much install all packages so it is very bloated. Can someone provide me with a list of packages that they have installed on the RHEL 6 server? I realise there will be subtle differences depending on customisation/programming, but I would suspect that mah-jong might be missing Cheers Phil. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- John Thompson -- John Thompson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] RHEL 6.x and Universe Package Requirements
On 20/12/11 14:17, John Thompson wrote: True. But if you don't use yum, yum doesn't update its database properly of what has been installed/updated and will sometimes complain on its next run. Plus yum seems to do a much better job of automatically installing the dependencies you need, without having to manually do it. WEIRD!!! aiui, yum doesn't have its own db, it just uses the rpm db! I come from the Debian world, and I always hated rpm, so I was glad to see them improve it over the years. Just my two cents. The problem was never rpm, the problem was (a) poor rpm spec files, and (b) conflicting package definitions. Because all the apt/dpkg distros were derived from debian, they kept debian conventions, and debian also had sane definition files. But because the no 2 rpm-based distro was not a Red Hat derivative, they kept their own packaging conventions, and drove a coach and horses through any attempt to make rpms compatible across distros. Two interesting factoids - rpm was written by Caldera, and SuSE is a slackware derivative :-) Cheers, Wol On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Wols Listsantli...@youngman.org.ukwrote: On 20/12/11 13:52, John Thompson wrote: Rocket has a little paper on this that my vendor sent me, BUT, it uses rpm, and rpm has been deprecated with RHEL 6. You now need to run everything through yum (the package manager). AUIU, all yum does is call rpm under the hood. So yes, using yum *should* be easier, but making it easier makes it less flexible. Horses for courses and all that. Cheers, Wol __**_ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-usershttp://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
