Developers guide

Chapter 4

Installation 9

Installation

This section will guide you through the installation of PacketFence together with its dependencies.

OS Installation

Install your distribution with minimal installation and no additional packages. Then:

∏ Disable Firewall

∏ Disable SELinux

∏ Disable AppArmor

∏ Disable resolvconf

Make sure your system is up to date and your yum or apt-get database is updated. On a RHEL-based

system, do:

yum update

On a Debian or Ubuntu system, do:

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

RedHat-based systems

Note

Includes CentOS and Scientific Linux. Both i386 and x86_64 architectures supported.

Several third party repositories are required to pull all the proper PacketFence dependencies:

∏ Repoforge, also previously known as rpmforge

∏ EPEL, Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

∏ OpenFusion

Install the proper repositories in yum so it can directly lookup for packages:

For RHEL 6.x / CentOS 6.x.