I installed this on the Mac. I also have Centos 5.9 on the HP Probook. Here are my notes; it’s much easier these days. This was created in Apr 2010.<\/p>\n
Remember to use the DVD copy, not Live CD<\/p>\n
My first copy on the Mac has Desktop Gnome, Server & Server GUI packages installed. This might not be what I need.<\/p>\n
I need to configure the admin user to be a sudoer. See Centos 4.7. In order to remake the kernel, on the Mac, or with 5.3 you need to force the shell interpreter i.e. sh .\/VBLinuxAdditions-x86.run<\/i>.<\/p>\n
There is\/was a kernel version mismatch; probably caused by the age of my .ISO image. I used the following commands.<\/p>\n
# yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel \r\n# yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel\r\n# yum install kernel*<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nThe advice was to install the first two lines, but it still didn’t work and so I ran the last line. Not sure what was used and what wasn’t.<\/p>\n
I ran the Guest Editions (VB 3.1.6) install script on Centos 5.4<\/i> today. I used all the yum commands above and still got a failure to compile the guest additons module. I checked the log which stated it couldn’t find the kernel source, and recommended setting KERN_DIR, so,<\/p>\n
\nexport KERN_DIR=\/usr\/src\/kernel\/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5-i686\/\r\nsh .\/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nwhich works I suggest you use bash’s autocomplete to do this, and I assume your current directory is \/media\/VBOXADDITIONS_*. This is also documented on the Virtual Box forum thread,Installing Guest Additions into CentOS\/RHEL 5.4<\/a> 27 April 2010<\/i><\/p>\n
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- How to install Guest Additions… at http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org<\/a><\/li>\n
- Problem Installing GuestAddition for CentOS<\/a> also at http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org.<\/a> This contains the advice on the rpms required.<\/li>\n
- man yum<\/a>,<\/a> which should be useful when installing the other packages I need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I am having problems with full screen mode. It installs with only 800×600 & 640×480. I have used Adminstration -> Display to change the Display device but at the moment, it’ll only support an 1152×864, despite using system-config-display to define a screen of 1440×900, which I though was the Mac Screen size. Shit!
See <\/del>http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/ticket\/4830<\/del>. Why is this pile of shit so popular? (I mean Centos not VB, of which I am still a fan.)The keyboard<\/b> isn’t right either. See also this thread<\/a> at the VB forums<\/b>. Lets see if that’s fatal.<\/p>\nBazaar<\/h3>\n
I need planet on this distro, so I need Bazaar. Not supported by the standard repositories, so get it from its home page. The repository rpm advised there doesn’t work for me so I used,<\/p>\n
\nrpm -Uvh ftp:\/\/ftp.univie.ac.at\/systems\/linux\/fedora\/epel\/5\/i386\/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm<\/a><\/pre>\n<\/div>\nThis site is advised at rpm.pbone.net’s EPEL release<\/a> page.<\/p>\n
After which<\/p>\n
\nyum install bzr<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nthis works, AFIAK, I have downloaded planet venus<\/i> using bzr.<\/p>\n
Redland RDF<\/h3>\n
I decided to install Redland RDF first. i.e before testing planet. You would think I have the choice of,<\/p>\n
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- installing from source<\/li>\n
- installing the RPM<\/li>\n
- installing a remote REPO based on the librdf.org directory and use yum?<\/li>\n
- installing a local REPO and rsync it using the librdf.org directory and use yum.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
I decided to try and create a local mirror for the rpms with a local repository. I have written up how to make a local repository on my making a yum repo<\/a> page. It has some links to pages that helped\/inspired me.However I am stuck at the moment and plan to install from the librdf.org source rpms. I will need the following resources,<\/p>\n
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- http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/HowTos\/RebuildSRPM<\/a><\/li>\n
- http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/HowTos\/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment<\/a><\/li>\n
- http:\/\/download.librdf.org\/source\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the SetupRpmBuildEnvironment<\/i> page, above, there are instructions to set up a .rpmmacros file. The required syntax is<\/p>\n
\n%_topdir \/home\/$user\/$dirname<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nI am pretty clear that the syntax requires the variables to be expanded. The centos page recommends an echo > but I couldn’t get their syntax to work. I was helped by this script from http:\/\/www.oldrpm.org\u00a0I wrote a script that downloaded the sources from librdf.org.<\/p>\n
I used rpmbuild –rebuild to create the RPMs then used sudo yum install to discover the missing dependencies and install them, one at a time. This worked fine until I tried to rebuild the bindings. The rebuild fails with the following errors.<\/p>\n
\nInstalled (but unpackaged) file(s) found\r\n\/usr\/lib\/python2.4\/site-packages\/RDF.pyc\r\n\/usr\/lib\/python2.4\/site-pacages\/RDF.pyo<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nI have found
the Koders search<\/del> for RDF.py, and google points me at the SPEC file in the rpmbuild tree. The %files section on redland-python has lines referenceing RDF.py and Redland.so. locate<\/i> can’t find these, and its getting a bit beyond me. http:\/\/python.org<\/a> has an SPRM for python-rdflib, but this won’t rebuild because of an error in setup.py.<\/p>\nOops<\/h3>\n
Notes as to how I got here follow.<\/p>\n
The binary packages are hosted at http:\/\/librdf.org\/.<\/a> They have a redhat downloads directory<\/a> which is based on Fedora Release Versions<\/b>. Using rpmfind<\/b>, [rpmfind results html<\/a>] suggests, Redland 1.0.7 i686 html, with this ftp .rpm download<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I used wget to download the .rpms from http:\/\/download.librdf.org\/binaries\/redhat\/fc7\/, which may be my mistake. Is fc7 == Centos 5.3? It seems that CENTOS 5.3 is RHEL 5.3 which is based on Fedora Core 6.<\/p>\n