Sig-I/O (Posts about rhel)https://sig-io.nl/categories/rhel.atom2023-07-11T16:34:59ZMark JanssenNikolaInstalling php 5.4 or 5.5 on CentOS 6.x / RHEL 6.x / SL 6.xhttps://sig-io.nl/posts/installing-php-54-or-55-on-centos-6x-rhel-6x-sl-6x/2014-08-01T21:34:44+02:002014-08-01T21:34:44+02:00Mark Janssen<p>There are many posts on the internet about people wanting to install a newer PHP release on their EL6 boxes. Most of these posts will tell you to either install the ‘remi’ repository, or packages from ‘webtatic’. However, there is a newer, and in my opinion better, method now.
Software Collections</p>
<p>Redhat has created the concept of software collections, in which they can provide newer or additional packages to the base OS. These packages come with a more limited support package, but they are at least a somewhat standardised way of installing additional functionality without impacting the base OS.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6</p>
<p>In RHEL systems, collections can be enabled with:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Enable the redhat collections channel</p>
<ul>
<li><p>rhn-channel –add –channel=rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhscl-1</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>Then install software from it:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>yum install php54-php</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>More info can be found on <a class="reference external" href="http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/08/01/php-5-4-on-rhel-6-using-rhscl/">http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/08/01/php-5-4-on-rhel-6-using-rhscl/</a>
CentOS 6 / SL 6 / OEL 6</p>
<p>For the community EL6 systems, the following procedure can be used:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Install the collection rpm for the collection you wish to use</p>
<ul>
<li><p>rpm -Uvh <a class="reference external" href="https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/php54/epel-6-x86_64/download/rhscl-php54-epel-6-x86_64-1-2.noarch.rpm">https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/php54/epel-6-x86_64/download/rhscl-php54-epel-6-x86_64-1-2.noarch.rpm</a></p></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>Install the packages from the collection</p>
<ul>
<li><p>yum install php54</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The list of available collections and their package-url’s can be found on <a class="reference external" href="https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/">https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/</a></p>Testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 (preview)https://sig-io.nl/posts/testing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-and-centos-7-preview/2014-06-16T21:39:03+02:002014-06-16T21:39:03+02:00Mark Janssen<div><p>Last week, 'Red Hat'_ released the final version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. A few days later the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.centos.org">CentOS</a> project made a first preview version of CentOS 7 available. Since many of our customers are running on RHEL 6 and/or CentOS 6, now was a good time to look into the newly release 7.0 version.</p>
<p>Both the CentOS-7 and RHEL-7 installations completed without any problems, something that was still giving more then enough issues during the beta and release-candidate stages of RHEL-7. We tested the ‘default’ graphical install, the text-based install and kickstart installs in both graphical and text-modes. Currently we’re fine-tuning our kickstart configuration for the 7 releases, so installs can be fully automated and fast.
Kickstart Configuration</p>
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