When installing vCloud Director 5.1 the other day i ran in to one interesting challenge. It has nothing to do with the actual vCloud Director software, it was all about the vCloud Director prerequisites. The required RedHat packages are:
The customer RedHat image did not include all the packages, the below packages were missing.
- libXdmcp
- libXi
- libXtst
- pciutils
- redhat-lsb
If i need to install the packages myself manually i usually mount the RedHat ISO according to:
- mkdir /mnt/cdrom (optional – if the directory does not already exists)
- mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Then i install the required packages using the command:
- rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Packages/”package-name”
This was ok for 4 out of the 5 missing packes but the “redhat-lsb” package required a lot of dependencies. The Linux “yum” command, which stands for “Yellowdog Updater Modified”, is your friend when you need to install a package and the same time include the dependencies. Just use:
- yum install “package-name”
I tried to install the redhat-lsb packages using the above command syntax but it failed. It turned out that the deployed RedHat image local yum repository configuration pointed to a remote installation source which was not accessible. I needed to configure a new yum repository file (dvd.repo) pointing to the locally mounted ISO. I added the below lines to the file /etc/yum.repos.d/dvd.repo
dvd.repo
[localrepo]
name=Red Hat
baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
When finished i removed the old yum repo data using the command:
- yum clean all
I also verified that the yum command actually found the newly created yum repo data by using the below command:
- yum repolist
Now the “yum install redhat-lsb” command worked as expected and i could continue with the vCloud Director installation.
Thanks to @thejyrg for helping me creating the dvd.repo file.
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