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Installing dependancies for Sun Ray on Centos 5.8

Ooo the beauty of Linux based proprietary thin clients... One of the best parts is that operating systems get updated, and SRSS doesn't. So re-installing/updating SRSS can be a bit of a moving target. So here are notes from my latest install.

Dependencies and prerequisites

  • yum install glib dhcp openldap-clients openldap tftp-server libXp openmotif22 openssl compat-libstdc++-33 libusb-devel compat-openldap gdbm.i386 openldap-devel pdksh libXfont
  • yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
  • wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/htop/htop-1.0.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
  • yum install htop-1.0.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm (ok, not really required, but helpful on gauging load easily)
  • wget ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/centos/5.8/os/i386/CentOS/glib-1.2.10-20.el5.i386.rpm
  • yum install  glib-1.2.10-20.el5.i386.rpm --nogpgcheck -y
  • cd /usr/lib
  • ln -sf libldap-2.3.so.0.2.31 libldap.so.199
  • ln -sf libgdbm.so.2.0.0 libgdbm.so.3
  • ln -sf liblber-2.3.so.0.2.31 liblber.so.199
  • extract the included java jdk in suplemental to opt, 
  • sh jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin
  • follow the instructions
  • when done, move the resulting installed dir  to /opt/java
  • extract the included tomcat, and place the resulting file structure at /opt/apache-tomcat

 Network set up

Very important, you can lose hours, if you don't do this part!

The infamous "Can't contact LDAP server" error during the ./utconfig step, is always always a problem with your hosts file. No matter how many times I do this set up somehow I always make some sort of error here. Hostname hygiene is key here. 
  • the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. . .
  • an entry in your /etc/hosts file with the ip address of your primary interface and the same hostname is KEY!
  • Make sure"localhost.localdomain" line in /etc/hosts until after the full process is completed.
  • Make sure that the 127.0.0.1 localhost entry exists, utadmin will not work without this (shot myself in the foot with this one a while ago)
  • Make sure there are correct entries in DNS as well. SRSS uses hostnames extensively.
When building a failover group it is highly recommended that you have all the members host entries in each host file, so you don't need DNS for a correctly working system. 

Some small optimizations...

    •  chkconfig iptables off
    • chkconfig ip6tables off
    • chkconfig bluetooth off

Now you can proceed with the standard set up steps....


Helpful links


http://www.mail-archive.com/sunray-users@filibeto.org/msg12857.html
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  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    Thanks! Been having problems with SRSS 4.2 and the tomcat/admin stuff working. All flying now. I'm not sure if it was the missing "yum" stuff or the java being put in /opt/java, but it's going now. Thanks again!

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    1. UnknownNovember 20, 2012 at 10:16 PM

      Your more than welcome...

      The next frontier is getting this working on Centos 6.X...

      Hope to do that over the Christmas holidays...

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