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Line 1: − == SME 9, based on CentOS 6 == − + − These are my own attempts. I am not qualified to do this. Do NOT try it on anything other than a Virtual Machine, or a test machine.<br />}}+ − {{Note box| 20/01/2013 Daniel at Firewall Services has managed to get a booting CentOS 6 with the SME packages installed. He should be adding his notes here soon.+ + + + − + + + + + + + + + + + + − Some RPMs need to be got from EPEL, RPMForge and ATrpms − Needs a hack in yum-priority.conf+ − − selinux-policy-targeted and authconfig need to be removed − − (I found I had to disable selinux myself) − − You have to completely disable it in /etc/sysconfig/selinux − − LOTS of things are broken, but then that's no great surprise. − − If we have a booting system we can start to look at fixing it. − − nke has been playing on 32 bit as well - I guess it will probably be worth replicating from 64 to 32 to see what happens. − − }} − These are some notes on my attempts at installing SME on CentOS 6. + − There are two paths that I can see to testing this: − − 1. Install CentOS 6 Minimal and try to add the equivalent 6 packages and see what is missing.<br /> − I decided to try Route 1 first.+ − − I did the following using a Virtualbox VM for expediency allowing me to revert changes easily if I needed too. − Line 51:
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{{Note box|Do NOT try this on anything other than a Virtual Machine, or a test machine.}}
== SME 9, based on CentOS 6 ==
=== Prerequisites ===
* VIrtual machine (Vmware, Parallels or Virtualbox)
* Centos Minimal 64-bit architecture. 32-bit may follow later
* Access to EPEL, RPMForge and ATrpms repositories
Some Gotchas :
=== Current status ===
* Identify all SME Server specific packages (John C.) See notes below.
* Setting up a RPM building environment (Ian W.)
* booting CentOS 6 with the SME packages installed. (Daniel)
* Notes:
** Some RPMs need to be got from EPEL, RPMForge and ATrpms
** Needs a hack in yum-priority.conf
** selinux-policy-targeted and authconfig need to be removed
** You have to completely disable SELinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux
** LOTS of things are broken, but then that's no great surprise.
** If we have a booting system we can start to look at fixing it.
** nke has been playing on 32 bit as well - I guess it will probably be worth replicating from 64 to 32 to see what happens.
There are two paths that I can see to testing this:
1. Install CentOS 6 Minimal and try to add the equivalent 6 packages and see what is missing.
2. Install CentOS 6 Minimal and then try to add existing SME v8 (el5) packages
2. Install CentOS 6 Minimal and then try to add existing SME v8 (el5) packages
This how-to takes on route 1.
== Installing CentOS 6 minimal ==
== Installing CentOS 6 minimal ==
First a few notes on CentOS 6 minimal, which is a bare bones install with very little on board. You can download a copy from one of the CentOS mirrors [http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 here]
First a few notes on CentOS 6 minimal, which is a bare bones install with very little on board. You can download a copy from one of the CentOS mirrors [http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 here]
* Make regular snapshots of your Virtual Machine and describe them specifically. At least when you've reached an important milestone for yourself
* Make regular snapshots of your Virtual Machine and describe them specifically. At least when you've reached an important milestone for yourself
=== Enable networking ===
=== Enable networking ===
* [http://wiki.contribs.org/Package_Modification Simple Package Modification from our wiki]
* [http://wiki.contribs.org/Package_Modification Simple Package Modification from our wiki]
* http://wiki.contribs.org/Setting_up_RPM_Building_for_SME_Server Building using Mock]
* [http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment On the CentOS wiki]
* [http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment On the CentOS wiki]
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html From the Fedora project]
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html From the Fedora project]