Unable to install Prolient Support Pack on RHEL 5.1 - is it needed?
 

Hi All,

I did try searching for PSP related info on here and google etc but I am struggling to find anything close to my issue so here goes…

I have just built a HP DL380 G5 with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (64bit) However by force of habit when building a Windows server I always build from the Smartstart and install the necessary Prolient Support pack, my question is does RedHat require the PSP to be installed and what benefits (if any) are there over RedHats drivers/software and such? I can find nothing on RedHat’s web page to suggest I should install it or anything that resembles my issues when I try to install it.

For example when I try the auto install as per the readme I get: -

Error while loading shared libraries: libXmu.so..6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I know libXmu is installed it’s in /usr/lib64

Additionally the manual install fails requesting me to install rpm-build & rpm-devel and there dependences which I guess I could do but it lands me in dependency hell as this box can’t get to the outside world for yum to make things easy for me. (Also I thought I had met all of the requirements in the Readme on the PSP 9.71 cd)

Can you Enterprise guru’s out there shed any light on this subject for me? Is it/should it be standard practice to also the PSP on all Linux servers? Has anyone else also suffered my issues on the 64bit platform?

So install the 32-bit counterpart rpm, you do not need access to the Internet for this. The installation media has the packages required for this, one can do a local install via yum with the media inserted ito the drive;


yum localinstall libXmu.i386 rpm-build rpm-devel

Hi Lenard, and thanks for your reply. I tried the yum localinstall switch but I just get the following:-

Cannot open file libXmu.i386 Skipping

I managed to track down and get libXmu installed from rpm on the install cd's but rpm-devel needs a loads of deps some of which are installed (64bit) and some I can't even find on the RHEL 5.1 media. The Proliant Support Pack installer does now start and asks me if I want to continue advising some packages may not build or install.

Do you normally install the PSP on your RHEL servers? The last place I worked didn't and I have never checked if it's "normal" amoungst the Linux community.

It depends on the customer, some what it some don't.

Some use CentOS instead of RHEL also, and one can usually use CentOS media/repos as a supplement / replacement; http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packag...ment/YumOnRHEL

While I really appreciate RHEL and Fedora I think this is the worst dependency issue I have had for a long time and it's on something I would expect to be straight forward - (maybe it's more of an issue for HP/Compaq) I will put the PSP on the back burner as I am unable to find a lot of these dependences even on the RHEL cd's and I have searched them all to the point of video blindness. I think I can wait till I have way out on to the web and can let yum do the dependency issues for me.
Would be a nice improvement to yum/rpm in RHEL if it could prompt you for the necessary CD's when performing a local install or at least give you the option.

One of the fun tools you can use is createrepo. It is not hard to use, for example create a directory (let's call it RHEL5 at the root) and copy all the rpm files off the CD media to this directory with no sub-directories if you have the room.


Install the createrepo package from rpmforge;

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B
yum install createrepo

Then from the /RHEL5 directory type; createrepo /RHEL5

And create a /etc/yum.repos.d/local-Media.repo file, sample below;
[local-media]
name=Red Hat-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///RHEL5
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

Then all one needs to do is something like; yum install foo --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=local-media

Another thing one can try is creating / editing a RHEL-Media.repo file;
[media-rhel5]
name=RedHat-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/RedHat/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0

This might work the with the CD's but I'm not sure, it does work with the DVD just fine.

And/or have a DVD image created from the CD ISO images using this;
http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/cent...ld/mkdvdiso.sh

Just open the file using any test editor for help with using this file one does need to make it executable after downloading. chmod u+x mkdvdiso.sh

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Thanks again Lenard, I must admit it never even crossed my mind to create my own repo. The place where I am working at the moment has someone else in control of software and licensing hence my battling with CD's when I would have just gone for the DVD.

Your welcome glad to help. By the way one can keep the local repo (or repos) on a DVD or CD's if desired.