YottaDB on Rocky Linux 8?

ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 12:15:44 AM1/7/22

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As you may or may not know, Centos 8 a rpm based linux distribution was end of lifed far earlier than expected leaving many to scramble for alternatives. Rocky Linux 8 has emerged as such an alternative with end of life set for May of 2029.

I am trying YottaDB install instructions 2. Installing YottaDB — Administration and Operations Guide documentation on it using ./ydbinstall.sh --installdir /opt/yottadb/ but am getting this message:

YottaDB not supported on Rocky Linux for x8664. Not installing YottaDB. Specify ydbinstall.sh --force-install to force install YottaDB. Installation aborted due to above error. Run ydbinstall.sh --help for detailed option list

Are there plans to support it or any other means to install it on Rocky Linux 8?

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Nancy Anthracite

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Jan 7, 2022, 6:33:43 AM1/7/22

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What happens when you try to run Astronaut on a supported Linux distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu?

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Nancy Anthracite

On Friday, January 7, 2022 12:15:44 AM EST ivaldes wrote:

> As you may or may not know, Centos 8 a rpm based linux distribution was end

> of lifed far earlier than expected leaving many to scramble for

> alternatives. Rocky Linux 8 has emerged as such an alternative with end of

> life set for May of 2029.

>

> I am trying YottaDB install instructions 2. Installing YottaDB —

> Administration and Operations Guide documentation

> <https://docs.yottadb.com/AdminOpsGuide/installydb.html#installing-yottadb> on

AYLESWORTH, MARC A CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RIEBA

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Jan 7, 2022, 8:55:32 AM1/7/22

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I believe that it will install if you use the --force-install option. I believe that it just compares name and that rogky linux is just to new. Rocky Linux should work the same as CentOS as it was forked before Redhat made CentOS 8 end of life.

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K.S. Bhaskar

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Jan 7, 2022, 9:00:42 AM1/7/22

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Ignacio –

Assuming you downloaded the RHEL 8 distribution, you can use --force-install to install on Rocky Linux 8, as Marc says.

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ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 11:26:12 AM1/7/22

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It works but is a whole different apt-get packaging ecosystem. I spent many years on it in the past. It probably still works. No offense intended for Debian and Ubuntu but I find all that sudo'ing off-putting. To each his own. The Rocky 8 Astro install with very old gtm went very smoothly reflecting 3 years of work on it. I am thinking of re-issuing the .rpm's and .deb's on Sourceforge but not running a server repository. The time and expense of maintaining a server repository doesn't make sense for so few interested users. Time marches on and now it is on to systemctl, dnf, firewall-cmd. I was surprised at Dandified Yum (dnf) is replacing yum. firewall-cmd once gotten used to does indeed seem to be an improvement over iptables.

ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 11:50:44 AM1/7/22

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./ydbinstall.sh --installdir /opt/yottadb/ --force-install

Unable to find YottaDB tarball for r1.32 rocky x8664

K.S. Bhaskar

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Jan 7, 2022, 12:28:57 PM1/7/22

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Ignacio –

To install on Rocky Linux 8, you have to manually download the RHEL 8 distribution, unpack it, and use the ydbinstall therein with the --force-install option.

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AYLESWORTH, MARC A CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RIEBA

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Jan 7, 2022, 1:10:27 PM1/7/22

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need to add --distrib centos to the mix to build a centos distribution of YottaDB

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ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 3:18:25 PM1/7/22

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I tried various things such as:

../ydbinstall.sh --installdir /opt/yottadb/ --force-install --distrib ./yottadb_r132
Unable to determine YottaDB/GT.M version

I ended up using the pre-built binary with wget https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/uploads/a9ae34c049115f731cc1633db48d0790/yottadb_r132_x8664_rhel8_pro.tgz, tar-zxvf and just moving it into place and changing owner using bash commands.

Just for future reference, it was/is here for gtm: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/GT.M-amd64-Linux/
I see it is now here for YottaDB https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/releases/r1.32 linked from this page: https://yottadb.com/resources/documentation/
ydbinstall.sh script command line switches here: https://docs.yottadb.com/AdminOpsGuide/installydb.html#obtaining-yottadb-distribution-media

K.S. Bhaskar

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Jan 7, 2022, 4:03:17 PM1/7/22

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Ignacio –

Just to confirm that this did not work for you:

Download the RHEL 8 r1.32 tarball from https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/uploads/a9ae34c049115f731cc1633db48d0790/yottadb_r132_x8664_rhel8_pro.tgz into a temporary directory.
Change to the temporary directory, and unpack the tarball: tar xvf yottadb_r132_x8664_rhel8_pro.tgz
Change to the yottadb_r132 subdirectory (where the contents of the tarball are unpacked) and execute: sudo ./ydbinstall --installdir /opt/yottadb --force-install

If that command did not install YottaDB r1.32, please run sudo ./ydbinstall --installdir /opt/yottadb --force-install --verbose and post the output as a text file attachment (not inline with your post). Thank you.

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ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 4:22:10 PM1/7/22

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Worked.

ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 4:58:45 PM1/7/22

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Has GDE been removed or renamed? vistastart.sh used GDE to build or rebuild mumps.gld

K.S. Bhaskar

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:20:14 PM1/7/22

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GDE is very much there. YottaDB wouldn't work without it.

Regards

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Sam Habiel

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:26:56 PM1/7/22

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Ignacio,

You are probably using gtmroutines for x86, not x64. The routines now are in a shared library. That's why you can't find GDE.

Look here: https://www.hardhats.org/projects/New/InstallVistAOnGTM.html

# Where the routines are.
# If you run 32 bit GT.M/YottaDB, you need to remove /libgtmutil.so
# On older versions of GT.M (<6.2), the * isn't recognized.
# There should be no reason for you to run 32-bit GT.M these days.
export gtmroutines="${vista_home}/o*(${vista_home}/r) $gtm_dist/libgtmutil.so"

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ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:27:10 PM1/7/22

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I must be off in the weeds then. A common occurrence with me. I am not seeing it, see below. I wonder if my install went awry. I had to use the --overwrite-existing since I had already installed it. Could that have disturbed it?

ls /opt/yottadb/ydb/
_convbaseutil.m gdedefaults gtmprofile _MPIECE.m _ti.m
_CONVBASEUTIL.m gdehelp.dat gtmsecshr mumps _TI.m
COPYING gdehelp.gld gtmsecshrdir mupip _t.m
custom_errors_sample.txt _gd.m gtm_sizeof.h mupiphelp.dat _T.m
_date.m _GD.m gtm_stdio.h mupiphelp.gld _to.m
_DATE.m _ged.m gtm_stdlib.h _od.m _TO.m
decomment.m _GED.m gtm_string.h _OD.m _trim.m
DECOMMENT.m _gi.m gtm_strings.h _oh.m _TRIM.m
_dh.m _GI.m gtm_tls_interface.h _OH.m _ucase.m
_DH.m _g.m gtmxc_types.h _patcode.m _UCASE.m
_d.m _G.m _hd.m _PATCODE.m _utf2hex.m
_D.m _go.m _HD.m _peekbyname.m _UTF2HEX.m
_do.m _GO.m _hex2utf.m _PEEKBYNAME.m _xcmd.m
_DO.m _gsel.m _HEX2UTF.m plugin _XCMD.m
dse _GSEL.m _h.m _randstr.m _XCMD.o
dsehelp.dat _gse.m _H.m _RANDSTR.m ydb
dsehelp.gld _GSE.m _ho.m _rce.m ydbcrypt_interface.h
_dsewrap.m gtcm_gnp_server _HO.m _RCE.m _ydbenv.m
_DSEWRAP.m gtcm_pkdisp _lcase.m _rd.m _YDBENV.m
_dumpfhead.m gtcm_play _LCASE.m _RD.m ydb_env_set
_DUMPFHEAD.m gtcm_run _lclcol.m README.md ydb_env_unset
_exp.m gtcm_server _LCLCOL.m _ri.m _ydbprocstuckexec.m
_EXP.m gtcm_shmclean libgtmshr.so _RI.m _YDBPROCSTUCKEXEC.m
_fl.m gtcm_slist libgtmutil.so _ro.m ydb_tls_interface.h
_FL.m gtm libydberrors2.h _RO.m _ygblstat.m
_freecnt.m gtm_common_defs.h libydberrors.h _rsel.m _YGBLSTAT.m
_FREECNT.m gtmcrypt_interface.h libyottadb.h _RSEL.m yottadb
ftok gtm_descript.h libyottadb.so _rse.m yottadb.pc
_gbldef.m gtmgblstat.xc libyottadbutil.so _RSE.m _zshowvtolcl.m
_GBLDEF.m gtmhelp.dat lke scantypedefs.m _ZSHOWVTOLCL.m
_gce.m gtmhelp.gld lkehelp.dat SCANTYPEDEFS.m
_GCE.m gtmhelp.m lkehelp.gld semstat2
_gc.m GTMHELP.m mmrhash.h _sqroot.m
_GC.m gtm_limits.h _mpiece.m _SQROOT.m

ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:30:07 PM1/7/22

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As far as I can tell there is no 32 bit version available for RHEL 8. I re-checked and yottadb_r132_x8664_rhel8_pro.tgz is what was received.

Sam Habiel

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:32:14 PM1/7/22

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Ignacio,

Look at gtmroutines. That's where your issue is.

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ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:57:12 PM1/7/22

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Putting libgtmutil.so on the end seemed to work:

export gtmroutines="$vista_path/objects($vista_path/patches $vista_path/routines $vista_path/plugins/web/ewd/routines ) $gtm_dist/ligbtmutil.so"

ivaldes

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Jan 7, 2022, 5:58:23 PM1/7/22

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Transposed bg fixed:

export gtmroutines="$vista_path/objects($vista_path/patches $vista_path/routines $vista_path/plugins/web/ewd/routines ) $gtm_dist/libgtmutil.so"

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K.S. Bhaskar

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May 14, 2023, 10:08:53 AM5/14/23

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ydbinstall.sh now recognizes Rocky Linux 8 and installs the RHEL 8 distribution (https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/issues/838).

Regards

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On Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 6:58:22 PM UTC-4 p3an...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Folks, For anyone else who might encounter this problem, I'm pretty sure my problem ended up being a missing ` before the "$gtm_dist/libgtmutil.so" that, for me did not copy/paste (one or the other). You will notice it is not in the Adding that tick back in was the magic incantation I needed

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