CentOS 5 :: Installing Software From Archive - Where To Put It So Can Use It?
Jun 20, 2010
I have an executable program to install, but no package, installer, etc. Where do I put it so I can launch it from anywhere? Even in the folder I unzipped it to I cannot run it. I get "command not found". I read somewhere to use ./ in front of it, but then I get "permission denied error"
Now i want to create a resue disk for my Centos5.5i think mondoArchive tool is best for this job.i installed mondo by usingyum install mondoand it is intalled successfullybut i cant see it inApplication>sytem toolshow can i run it in a GUI mode.
I'm using Debian 503 Lenny, Gnome. My machine, She-Beast, is a 2001 Compaq Presorry-o, 1100GHz Celery. With every, that is, E V E R Y, attempt to install any .deb, it fails. When I 2x click on the .deb icon, or when I r-click -->Open with archive manager, I get a dialog window: "Could not open "(filename).deb". Archive type not supported." If I use root terminal, dpkg -i, similar responses come up.
I'd like to ask about archive mounter feature, can I mount zip file with read write mode? can gvfsd-archive do that?, or I must use fuse-zip to mount it? If I must use fuse-zip, how I wrap it so I can use it via nautilus or via gvfs-fuse-daemon
Is there a startup option I can put in the /etc/init.d/mysqld script or an option in the /etc/my.cnf file to enable the Archive engine for MySQL or do I have to compile it from the source?
I am new to the world of linux and when attempting to verify a tar archive I am displayed the following error. When running the command tar cvfW archivename.tar filename directoryname does not yield any errors.
I'm new to Ubuntu, and everytime i've tried to download a program like iTunes, the "Archive Manager" comes up and says "An Error Has Occured While Loading the Archive". how to fix this or download programs ?
The installer can't see my raid controller (I assume) as I'm getting the following error:"Error opening /dev/mapper/isw_jbhgjgjj_Vol0: No such device or address"It just sees them as 4 individual drives: sda, sdb, sdc and sdd.Please note that I have set up the RAID 5 in the controller bios interface and the image name is Vol0, which it seems that it tries to load but for some particular reason it can't.I have also tried different bios settings and nothing worked.
My problem is that I'm trying to install CentOS 5.4 x86_64 DVD ISO on Supermicro X7SBI server with installed Adaptec RAID 3405 controller.
I created RAID 5 array and is working fine (adaptec status says Optimal) but I can't install CentOS to that array (1.5TB size).
Whenever I try to install with: linux dd
I'm asked for a driver, which I have downloaded from Adaptec site and extracted contents to USB drive (in installation found as /sba1) which has now a lot of IMG and some ISO files on it.
I try to load (I simplified names) RHEL5.img, CENTOS.img... with x64 names (one exact name: aacraid driverdisk-CentOS-x86_64.img) and I always get the error message: "No devices of the appropriate type were found on this driver disk"
This is going on for a week now and I can't find the right driver or something I'm doing wrong to get install done.
I am trying to install CentOS-DS on version 5.4 x86_64. I cannot get to the Extras repo due to lack of wired Internet access. I have wireless (except to server) and I have big UFD drives.
I need your help urgently. I will shortly install Centos 5 on a HP DL380R05 E5420 Server with two HP 146GB 10k 2.5 SAS HP SP hard disks running hardware RAID-1. I am a newbie on CentOS, please advise me:
1. Do I need a Centos RAID device driver for hardware RAID-1 on the HP DL380R05 E5420 Server? 2. Should I use Centos i386 or Centos x86_64 in this case? Which one: CentOS 5.2 or CentOS 5.3? 3. Does Centos support Embedded NC373i Multifunction Gigabit network cards?
The following is my server's hardware configuration:
HP DL380R05 E5420 2GB Base AP Server(1) Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5420 Two Embedded NC373i Multifunction Gigabit / 2 GB (2 x 1 GB) PC2-5300 Fully Buffered DIMMs (DDR2-667)/HP Smart Array P400/256MB Controller /Rack (2U)/Hot Plug Fully Redundant Fans Standard Two HP 146GB 10k 2.5 SAS HP SP HDD HP 1000W IEC C14 Cord RPS Kit
I want to install CentOS from netinstall CD, but it doesn't work for wireless connection, because it just looks up for eth0 connection. Well, I connected server to wired USB connection and it's named eth1. I want to use netinstall CD but using eth1 connection. Is there any way for doing it?
I am having new hardware and IDE driver for that hardware as drive disk image (it8213_centos53.img). CentOS 5.3 installation is working fine with drive disk image at USB and CentOS 5.3 at DVD. Our application uses CentOS 5.3 and we build a custom kick-start ISO for installations. Using that ISO client is going to install on all hardware boxes.
Note while installing : a) No network connection is avalible. b) No USB isavalible. c) No floppy is avalible. d) Only single CD-ROM is avalible.
So, is it possible to build single custom kick-start CentOS 5.3 ISO which contains dirve disk image and entire installation will be done using that image. If so please let me know the steps to build it.
I've been trying to install the Fuppes media server onto CentOS and have had a few difficulties. I had to do a build from the source (svn build 578), then configure, make and make install. So far so good.Once I try to run fuppes, I get the error:[ERROR] Failed to bind socket to : 8.15.7.107:0.The documentation I've searched so far suggests that there is a config file that needs to be set with the appropriate ip address, but the file doesn't exist as the program hasn't started up yet!
I've Got one Problem with My Computer soon after success installation of when the boot-loader ask me to choose OS at CENTOS 5.4, multi boot boot-loader if i choose windows then computer tries to boot windows but fail and give the error message that there is a problem on reading the hard disk, But when i restart it and start with LINUX then computer start successful with no error message, now i do not know what to do cause i need to use Windows and all my programs are in windows..
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on an old Pentium 4 desktop PC I have, which is not being used for much other than being a MTA, and I want to migrate this functionality onto the CentOS platform for stability (Windows is a perpetual nightmare. I partitioned a spare 20GB to experiment with, and I want to install CentOS into here to play around with first so I can move my files around between Windows and CentOS, until I'm happy all of the stuff is gone, then I can scrub the Windows partition and claim the space for CentOS.
So, I've downloaded and burned the DVD and tried to install. I start the install with no args from the main install menu, and the process goes through some probing and then comes up with the "Welcome to CentOS" menu. I go through this, and then it tries to start X Server. It fails, and falls back to text mode. I get the "Welcome to CentOS" screen again, and then proceed through it. I set my keyboard layout to UK, then this message comes up at the bottom of the screen:
"_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6001: Temporary failure in name resolution"
then on the next line: "Cannot open display :1" If I force the install to text, by typing "linux text" at the first menu, I get about the same way through, but the install just hangs doing nothing, and no disc access to the install disc.
I've noticed this happen with every CentOS installation I've done in the past and it's confusing me. On the software template screen select, I always select "Server" and leave the extras option unchecked, I also check "Customise now". The only things I choose are the editors (to get vi), Web server and server configuration tools (and this time also Java). I didn't select any GUI programs, yet it still installs things like X, GNOME components and also samba. Why does it do that? There no way they're needed for dependencies. Is there something I'm missing when selecting the software components? Why does it still install samba when I didn't select it from under "Servers" components? Or have I misunderstood what software selection does and it installs all those components regardless but doesn't automatically turn the services on?
I have been running CentOS 5 as my primary desktop for about 6 months now, and have been very pleased with it. Since I work as a hardware designer most of the tools I need only provide support for RHEL, and I have found these tools (once you hack the installer anyway) generally work very, very well indeed on CentOS.
I recently bought a new computer and I thought I'd share my experiences of installing CentOS 5.2 on it. Here's the specs - Core i7 920, 12Gig DDR3, Radeon 4780, Gigabyte EX58-UD4. The first issue I encountered was a very early boot crash. This was a known problem with the onboard Gig-E chipset and I eventually found the solution on your wiki site. Using a separate network card I was able to install the new kernel module and it now works great. I believe this is now sorted in 5.3.
Next up was a problem with the Radeon card I think - after installing the ATI driver (proprietary), X would come up with a white screen and the computer would lock up. Going back to VESA would get me going again, but frankly I can't stand X without video acceleration. This turned out to be a problem with "RHGB" (not the first time I've had problems with this to be honest). Disabling it in the grub command line sorted that out.
The next problem was the performance of the harddisk - I was only getting a few MB read/write speed out of it according to hdparm. This seriously slowed down the PC. To fix that I had to enable AHCI in the bios which got things running much better - about 55 MB/sec.
The last problem was with the virtualization. I run VirtualBox with a windows instance and it kept crashing every time I booted it (I'd copied it across from my old workstation). This was because of FlexLM drivers used for USB dongle based licenses. Now, these will only work if you enable the VT extensions on the processor. I thought I had - the VM certainly had it enabled and so had the bios. Going through the VirtualBox log's it seemed like they were being detected but not enabled. From what I understand, VT-x was enabled, but the BIOS is supposed to also set up some form of locking mechanism or these virtual machines wont use it. It seems this wasn't done properly with the BIOS revision supplied with the motherboard (F2). Upgrading to the latest BIOS got it working properly.
My only outstanding issues now aren't really CentOS related - enabling AHCI has stopped my (proper, dual boot) Windows installation from working. At the moment I have to disable it in the BIOS before booting Windows - no big problem as I don't do that often (I maybe need to reinstall it). The other issue is GRUB wont work with my USB keyboard even though the BIOS seems happy enough with it. Odd in that the same keyboard worked fine with GRUB on my old workstation.
Finally, a couple of general remarks about using CentOS - it's never crashed on me and I do thrash the thing at times when I'm doing hardware synthesis or P&R! Base software is a bit limited, but adding some external repos (RPMForge and EPEL in particular) generally sorts that out. The only thing I (personally) miss is a more up-to-date version of mono.
I have looked through many forums and blogs but can't seem to find CURRENT information for how to install YUM on centos 5.2 x86
If anyone can direct me to a page or site that has a list of current RPM's needed and possibly some instructions. All the lists Ive come across are for i386, and the ones I have found for x86 .. most of the rpm's end up as 404's
I have a new VPS running centos 5.2 w/ plesk and it did not come with yum.
I'm attempting to install php-gd on a server that already has php5 installed, and have run into a few problems with yum. When running yum install php-gd, I get:
Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments
I have downloaded the following CentOS 5.5 DVD iso files and burn the same using Nero Express: 1. CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso (4.09 GB) 2. CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso (412 MB)
I am trying installing it on a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop. I could boot the machine successfully with the DVD 01. After selecting the Installation method as "Local CDROM" it says: CD Not Found. The CentOS CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the CentOS CD and press OK to retry and it ejects the DVD in a splash. I tried mounting the DVD in a DVD drives in Windows XP SP2 and it is showing the content correctly. I also tried mounting the iso file with PowerISO Virtual Drive manager in Windows XP SP2 and it is mounting well.
I tried many times but of no success. Earlier I tried the following also (before downloading the DVD image files): 1. I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition on the same machine. 2. The same machine is also working fine with CentOS 5.5 Live CD.
I am trying to installing KDE 4.4 on CentOS 5.4, but I can't find an easy way to do it in CentOS, and I would rather not compile it. Secondly what is a good way to view a Xen virtual machine, as far as the speed and responsiveness go?
I tried install Centos 5.2 (i386) on Dell PowerEge 2950 server with SAS RAID disk (RAID 5 on PERC 6/i created from six HDD, 1 TB each). I never installed Centos on a disk over 2 TB. I find out that i need use gpt instead mbr. I tried use rescue mode + parted but after rebooting I got message "Can't boot from from GPT partition" whet tried install. But when the space is partitioned by installer, I can't boot up.I got msg PBR not found. My ask is: "Can I boot directly from GPT partition? If yes how do it?" Or even better "How to install centos 5.2 on disk bigger than 2 TB?"
I'm attempting to install ImageMagick on my shiny new CentOS 5 server, but it wants to install a bunch of X libs and ALSA to get that to run.
I don't really want sound software and X installed. I see there is a configure option to install --without-x.Are there any alternatives to compiling from source? Any sort of rpm you know of that I am not seeing?