Installation guide

NOTE

There is a fourth setup option called a silent installation. This provides two ways

of performing the setup without user interaction, either by passing arguments in

the command-line with the setup-ds-admin.pl script or to use a file with

settings already defined. This is extremely useful for doing large numbers of

Directory Server instances, since it does not require any user involvement after

the packages are installed. Silent installations are explained more in Section 3.1,

“Silent Setup for Directory Server and Administration Server”.

This chapter describes the complete procedure to install Red Hat Directory Server on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux, including both the JRE and Directory Server packages, and the different setup

options.

1. Installing the JRE

Necessary Java JRE libraries are not bundled with Directory Server. They must be downloaded

and extracted separately before installing the Directory Server packages.

NOTE

Directory Server 8.0 requires JRE version 1.5.0.

Any Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer can download the required JRE packages from the

RHEL Extras or Supplemental channel in Red Hat Network, and then use native Red Hat tools

to install the package. For example, to install the JRE on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, use the

up2date command:

up2date java-1.5.0-ibm

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, use the yum command:

yum install java-1.5.0-ibm

Using yum or up2date is the preferred and recommended way to install Java. However, it is also

possible to download the JRE from the Java site.

1. Download the Java libraries from http://www.java.com.

Chapter 3. Setting up Red Hat Directory Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux