Centos 5.3

Centos 5.3

I installed this on the Mac

Installing in Virtual Box

Remember to use the DVD copy, not Live CD

My first copy on the Mac has Desktop Gnome, Server & Server GUI packages installed. This might not be what I need.

I need to configure the admin user to be a sudoer. See Centos 4.7. In order to remake the kernel, on the Mac, or with 5.3 you need to force the shell interpreter i.e. sh ./VBLinuxAdditions-x86.run.

There is/was a kernel version mismatch; probably caused by the age of my .ISO image. I used the following commands.

# yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel 
# yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
# yum install kernel*

The advice was to install the first two lines, but it still didn't work and so I ran the last line. Not sure what was used and what wasn't.

• How to install Guest Additions... at http://forums.virtualbox.org
• Problem Installing GuestAddition for CentOS also at http://forums.virtualbox.org. This contains the advice on the rpms required.
• man yum at http://linux.die.net, which should be useful when installing the other packages I need.

The keyboard isn't right either. See also this thread at the VB forums. Lets see if that's fatal.

Bazaar

I need planet on this distro, so I need Bazaar. Not supported by the standard repositories, so http://bazar-vc.org/Downloads has Centos advice. The repository rpm advised there doesn't work for me so I used,

rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

This site is advised at rpm.pbone.net's EPEL release page.

After which

yum install bzr

this works, AFIAK, I have downloaded planet venus using bzr.

Redland RDF

I decided to install Redland RDF first. i.e before testing planet. You would think I have the choice of,

1. installing from source
2. installing the RPM
3. installing a remote REPO based on the librdf.org directory and use yum?
4. installing a local REPO and rsync it using the librdf.org directory and use yum.

making a yum repo

However I am stuck at the moment and plan to install from the librdf.org source rpms. I will need the following resources,

• http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM
• http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
• http://download.librdf.org/source/

%_topdir /home/$user/$dirname

this script

I wrote a script that downloaded the sources from librdf.org.

I used rpmbuild --rebuild to create the RPMs then used sudo yum install to discover the missing dependencies and install them, one at a time. This worked fine until I tried to rebuild the bindings. The rebuild fails with the following errors.

Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/RDF.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-pacages/RDF.pyo

Koders search

Oops

Notes as to how I got here follow.

The binary packages are hosted at http://librdf.org/. They have a redhat downloads directory which is based on Fedora Release Versions. Using rpmfind, [rpmfind results html] suggests, Redland 1.0.7 i686 html, with this ftp .rpm download.

I used wget to download the .rpms from http://download.librdf.org/binaries/redhat/fc7/, which may be my mistake. Is fc7 == Centos 5.3? It seems that CENTOS 5.3 is RHEL 5.3 which is based on Fedora Core 6.

So just had another go, Dave Beckett suggests I source the rpms from koji.fedoraproject.org. I am still guessing as to which vesion of the package is required, but I found that the Centos 5.3 distro has rasqal in its repo, so when installing it, from a koji .rpm, it installs from the Centos repo and installs its dependent raptor package. This now leaves just the redland library itself. The versions I have tried all require to modern a version of libdb, libpq and libcurl. I am now trying to get old versions of librdf. Back to librdf.org and ./fc6.

This also works without the repos.d/*.repo file. I used redland-1.0.6. It seems the rpm is in the distro.