Installation guide

Using up2date or yum to pull the packages from the Red Hat Network repository

Downloading Packages from Red Hat Network

Red Hat Directory Server 8.2 packages are available for download from Red Hat Network

(http://rhn.redhat.com). Downloading packages from Red Hat Network requires specific entitlements for

the account for the 8.2 release.

1. Log into Red Hat Network.

2. Open the Red Hat Directory Server 8.2 channel in Channels, and go to the Downloads tab.

3. Download the packages.

Both RPMs and ISO images are available for download through Red Hat Network, along with

tarball packages (.tar.gz) of the source code.

The ISO images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be downloaded and burned on to a CD-

recordable media using the appropriate software.

NOTE

There are two PassSync packages available, one for 32-bit Windows servers and one for

64-bit. Make sure to select the appropriate packages for your Windows platform.

4. Install the packages using the native package tools for your system. For example, to install RPMs

on Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

ls *.rpm | egrep -iv -e devel -e debuginfo | xargs rpm -ivh

Solaris tools can be used to install its packages.

5. Run setup-ds-admin.pl to configure a new instance.

setup-ds-admin.pl

See the Directory Server Installation Guide for more information about setup-ds-adm in.pl

script options and the Directory Server configuration interface.

6. T he Password Sync packages available for download contain the PassSync.msi installer file.

Download this file to the Windows machine, and then double-click the icon and go through the

installer.

Installing through up2date or yum

Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers can simply install or update their packages using up2date or yum,

using an account with entitlements for the Red Hat Directory Server 8.2 release.

1. Install the packages. For example, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5:

yum install redhat-ds

2. Run setup-ds-admin.pl to configure a new instance.

setup-ds-admin.pl

See the Directory Server Installation Guide for more information about setup-ds-adm in.pl

Red Hat Directory Server 8.2 Red Hat Directory Server 8.2 Release Notes