title: Never give up! Never surrender! Installing 389 Directory Server on EL 6.1 link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/never-give-up-never-surrender-installing-389-directory-server-on-el-61/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 11 created: 2011/08/01 09:44:27 created_gmt: 2011/08/01 09:44:27 comment_status: open post_name: never-give-up-never-surrender-installing-389-directory-server-on-el-61 status: publish post_type: post

Never give up! Never surrender! Installing 389 Directory Server on EL 6.1

Really wanted to try out the 389 Directory on my new SL 6.1 workstation at home. Took awhile, but the stars finally came into just the right alignment for me to do the install. Here's the story from the lead developer on the user's mail list today:

EL6 support is . . . tricky. We will not provide support for 6.0 - too many missing dependencies. With RHEL 6.1, since the 389-ds-base package is provided by the base OS, we cannot provide them via EPEL, hence the use of the private developer repo at fedorapeople.org. The other "problem" with EL6 is that the 389-ds-base package is not the full package - it is missing the replication and windows sync bits (hence the problem with the missing repl-monitor.pl). You have to pay extra for the ds-replication package in RHEL6 - right now it is available as a "tech preview" from your local sales rep. The 389-ds-base package from fedorapeople.org does have the replication bits.

(EPEL is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, a subproject of Fedora) RHEL 6.0 won't be supported because there are too many missing dependencies. OK, fair enough. But the core package (389-ds-base) as shipped with 6.1 is crippleware? Instructions for installing on 6.1 are here, but they're not exactly a model of clarity. Let me lay it out for you: in order to make this work get the 389-ds-base and 389-ds-base-libs packages from epel-389-ds-base.repo (Fedora People), and the rest of the stuff from EPEL 6 Testing. That's right, testing. Why? Because stable EPEL 6 contains packages that will only build with the now deprecated mozldap package (a/k/a Mozilla LDAP SDK for C).

Be sure to enable the "testing" repo for EPEL 6, this will be /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo:.

[epel-testing]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=testing-epel6-arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

Here's what you'll see at the console if you got all that right and run yum install 389-ds

================================================================================
 Package                  Arch      Version           Repository           Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 389-ds                   noarch    1.2.2-1.el6       epel-testing        9.9 k
Installing for dependencies:
 389-admin                x86_64    1.1.20-1.el6      epel-testing        342 k
 389-admin-console        noarch    1.1.7-1.el6       epel-testing        202 k
 389-admin-console-doc    noarch    1.1.7-1.el6       epel-testing         43 k
 389-adminutil            x86_64    1.1.14-2.el6      epel-testing         64 k
 389-console              noarch    1.1.7-1.el6       epel                 72 k
 389-ds-base              x86_64    1.2.8.3-1.el6     epel-389-ds-base    1.3 M
 389-ds-base-libs         x86_64    1.2.8.3-1.el6     epel-389-ds-base    352 k
 389-ds-console           noarch    1.2.6-1.el6       epel-testing        1.4 M
 389-ds-console-doc       noarch    1.2.6-1.el6       epel-testing         55 k
 389-dsgw                 x86_64    1.1.7-1.el6       epel-testing        469 k
 idm-console-framework    noarch    1.1.7-2.el6       epel-testing        1.1 M
 mod_nss                  x86_64    1.0.8-12.el6      sl                   80 k
 svrcore                  x86_64    4.0.4-5.1.el6     sl                   14 k
	
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      14 Package(s)
	
Total download size: 5.4 M
Installed size: 14 M

If you see something like this:

Error: Package: 389-admin-1.1.11-0.5.rc1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libssldap60.so()(64bit)
Error: Package: 389-admin-1.1.11-0.5.rc1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: mod_nss
Error: Package: 389-adminutil-1.1.10-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libssldap60.so()(64bit)
* * *
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

then you're still grabbing the older EPEL stable packages, not testing (and you might also be picking up the release version of 389-ds-base, etc. from the main distribution). Remember. You want the 389-ds-base and 389-ds-base-libs from Fedora People, and the rest of the 389 packages from EPEL Testing.

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