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RHEL6 review

17th November 2010
A nice review once again from The H, this time about the newly released RHEL6.
Check it out here.
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New stuff in RHEL/Centos 5.6

26th November 2010
With some delay I find out that RHEL 5.6 (and consequently Centos 5.6) will have:
  - bind 9.7 - improved DNSsec support
  - PHP 5.3 - support for namespaces
  - ebtables - Ethernet layer firewall
  - dropwatch - network stack packet analysis
  - IPA fonts - Japan JIS X 0213:2004 support
  - sssd - offline credential caching
All good and well, but the PHP upgrade will break a LOT of sites! I really didn't expect this.. I'll have to prepare my arse for a lot of messing around; also shall setup a PHP 5.2 repo for customers. :-(
Tags: bind, centos, php, rhel. | No comments

mod_substitute in rhel/centos 5

16th January 2011
Apparently mod_substitute has finally been backported into rhel 5:
Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_substitute.so from install of httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mod_substitute-2.2.11-1.el5.ld.x86_64

No need for 3rd party repos for this module anymore. Hurray! :-)
Tags: apache, centos, httpd, mod_substitute, rhel. | No comments

Transmission bittorrent client for EL6

24th May 2011
As it turns out there's no graphical bittorrent client in EL6, therefore a quick copy/paste tip so you don't end up butchering your favourite OS like this guy (though he was trying to achieve smth a tad different):
wget ftp://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/transmission-common-2.04-2.fc14.1.x86_64.rpm ftp://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/transmission-gtk-2.04-2.fc14.1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck transmission-common-2.04-2.fc14.1.x86_64.rpm transmission-gtk-2.04-2.fc14.1.x86_64.rpm

Modify the paths accordingly if you're on 32 bit arch.

Enjoy! ;-)
Tags: bittorrent, centos, el6, rhel, scientificlinux, tip, transmission. | No comments

Libreoffice repo for EL6

17th December 2011
For those people who wanted to use Libreoffice on their EL6 workstations there weren't many options; basically you had to download a tarball from libreoffice.org and `rpm -ivh` the contained rpms manually - not the best way to have it installed and relatively painful to keep up to date.

But no more - I've been backporting Libreoffice for a while now from Fedora and you're free to use it!
Also, recently I noticed there are RHEL conditionals in the spec files. For those unfamiliar with RPM building this means Redhat is probably getting ready to include Libreoffice in their enterprise distro.

I don't know when we'll see Libreoffice in EL 6 officially but I know it won't be in v6.3. Until then you can use my repo - it should gracefully upgrade existing stock openoffice.org installations:

To install do the following as root:

rpm -ivh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/i386/nux-libreoffice-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
yum install libreoffice

To upgrade from stock openoffice.org:

rpm -ivh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/i386/nux-libreoffice-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
yum update

To replace Libreoffice installed from the official libreoffice.org rpms:

yum remove libreoffice\* libobasis\*
rpm -ivh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/i386/nux-libreoffice-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
yum install libreoffice

If you run into issues feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line: rpm @ li.nux.ro

Tags: centos, el6, libreoffice, openoffice, rhel, scientificlinux. | No comments

EL6 deps for Oracle11g

18th January 2012
The pile of shit called Oracle data base (11g) needs a crapload of deps. This is for 64 bit OS:
yum install libgcc.i686 nss-softokn-freebl.i686 glibc.i686 libaio.i686 libstdc++.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 readline.i686 libICE.i686 libtool-ltdl.i686 libSM.i686 libuuid.i686 unixODBC.i686 libXau.i686 libX11.i686 libxcb.i686 libXext.i686 libXi.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libXt.i686 libXtst.i686 libaio-devel.i686 unixODBC-devel.i686 glibc-devel.i686 kernel-headers libstdc++-devel elfutils-libelf-devel mpfr libXmu libXxf86misc glibc-headers libXxf86vm xorg-x11-xauth cpp libtool-ltdl unixODBC cloog-ppl ppl libmcpp mcpp xorg-x11-server-utils compat-db42 compat-db43 libdmx libXxf86dga libIDL ORBit2 GConf2 libbonobo gtk2-engines shared-mime-info libdaemon avahi avahi-glib gnome-vfs2 xorg-x11-utils compat-libstdc++-33 celt051 libXp ConsoleKit-x11 xorg-x11-xinit glibc-devel gcc compat-gcc-34 ncurses-devel gcc-c++ libgnome readline-devel compat-db libaio-devel unixODBC-devel compat-gcc-34-c++ libgcc nss-softokn-freebl glibc libaio libstdc++ ncurses-libs readline libICE libtool-ltdl libSM libuuid unixODBC libXau libX11 libxcb libXext libXi compat-libstdc++-33 libXt libXtst libaio-devel unixODBC-devel glibc-devel
Tags: el, el6, fail, oracle, rhel, rhel 6, rpm, shit, yum. | No comments

Skype 4.0 on EL6 (CentOS/Stella, ScientifixLinux, RHEL, PUIAS) update

22nd June 2012
UPDATE 14th August 2014: Microsoft has released a new Skype version, 4.3.0.37 - you need AT LEAST this version to be able to login any more as they seem to have changed something in the authentication process. It is available in my repo, grab the latest from here: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/i386/

So after a long long time we finally have a new Skype linux release - and it's not even a beta!
This seems to be the first release under Microsoft's auspice and I hope it will run well and not bother the users with too many annoyances (I hear the Windows version has in-call ads now? wtf!).
As usual, EL users will still not be able to just "rpm -ivh" their packages - this has never been Skype's strongest point, not even after M$'s acquisition, but it's not like I was expecting anything.
Here's how to install it manually: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype.

UPDATE: Now there is an RPM that does all the dirty work. If you run Stella or Centos with nux-dextop repo active then you can just yum install skype, otherwise:
wget
ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/skype-4.0.0.7-3.el6.R.i586.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck skype-4.0.0.7-3.el6.R.i586.rpm
The RPM maintainer is Arkady L. Shane of the Russian Fedora community. Thank you, Arkady!

Enjoy!
Tags: centos, el6, linux, rhel, scientifixlinux, skype, stella. | No comments

From Russia with love: a new RHEL clone

3rd September 2012
What a nice surprise today to learn about a new RHEL clone!
The russians behind ROSA Labs (the same people who build ROSA Linux) have come up with a testing rebuild of RHEL, "imaginatively" called RELS, "ROSA Enterprise Linux Server".
There are rumours the "Russian Fedora" community is also involved.

I hope this clone will move out of testing and into proper production. I'm so bored with Centos and ScientificLinux. :-)

More info here:
http://www.rosalab.com/blogs/test-edition-of-rosa-enterprise-linux-se

PS: Got in touch with them and they specified: 
We've already done some additions:
1) we've ported Mandriva Directory Server, Mandriva Setup Server and Mandriva Management Console to RHEL6 basis;
2) we provide pretty minimal LXDE Desktop (we're the first who build LXDE for RHEL6-compatible distributions);

All our additions come to "extra" repository, 
while "base" mainly consists of RHEL6 packages to provide 100% binary compatibility.
Tags: clone, el clone, el6, rhel, rhel clone. | No comments

ROSA Enterprise Linux Server "Helium" 2012

12th November 2012
So after a period of silence after their test edition ROSA has finally announced a final release for RELS: 
Main advantages of ROSA Enterprise Linux Server "Helium" 2012:

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 package base.
    Centralized management of user accounts.
    Web-based administration and configuration interface.
    High scalability.
    Support for Windows and Linux clients.
    Improved data and service security by means of strong user authorization with "Single SignOn" possibility.
    Easy integration with existing corporate networks.
    A ready-to-use basis for deploying cloud solutions.

Download from here: http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa-server2012/iso/.


Interesting!

Tags: el6, linux, rels, rhel, rosa. | No comments

Long Term supported kernel in ElRepo for RHEL and the clones

19th November 2012
The good people at elrepo.org just announced on their blog that in addition to the kernel-ml, tracking the current mainline kernel, we now also have kernel-lt (!!!) tracking the current long term supported mainline kernel.

So if you feel like going a bit more bleeding edge, but not too much, then kernel-lt is for you!
Tags: el, el6, elrepo, kernel, kernel-lt, kernel-ml, linux, rhel. | No comments