A short guide on installing prerequisites for RHEL 5.3

[Christian Paredes]

I've found that it takes a little bit of effort in order to download
all of the prerequisites for RHEL 5.3 x86-64 and getting everything to
work properly. Here's what I have done in order to install Corra on
an RHEL 5.3 x86-64 box:

0. Log in as root. :)

1. Copy and paste the following into a file named jpackage17.repo.
Save this file under /etc/yum.repos.d/:

# Be sure to enable the distro specific repository for your distro
below:
# - jpackage-fc for Fedora Core
# - jpackage-rhel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives

[jpackage-generic]
name=JPackage (free), generic
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?
dist=generic&type=free&release=1.7
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=1

[jpackage-generic-5]
name=JPackage-5 (free)
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=1

[jpackage-fc]
name=JPackage (free) for Fedora Core $releasever
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=fedora-
$releasever&type=free&release=1.7
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=0

[jpackage-rhel]
name=JPackage (free) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=redhat-
el-5.0&type=free&release=1.7
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=1

[jpackage-generic-nonfree]
name=JPackage (non-free), generic
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage_generic_nonfree_1.7.txt
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=1

2. Install java-1.6.0-sun:

yum install java-1.6.0-sun

3. Install jpackage-utils-compat (download the .rpm from
http://candrews.integralblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm)

rpm -ivh jpackage-utils-compat*.rpm

4. Now install ant 1.7 (we had to use the jpackage repo solely because
of this; I couldn't build Corra until I've installed ant-1.7)

yum install ant

5. Install tomcat6 (I also don't think this is exposed in the RHEL
repos, this is provided I think by the jpackage repos)

yum install tomcat6

6. DONE!

[Christian Paredes]

I should add that you should also install jpackage-utils after
installing jpackage-utils-compat

yum install jpackage-utils

-- christian

> 3. Install jpackage-utils-compat (download the .rpm fromhttp://candrews.integralblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/jpackage-...)