Developers guide

Chapter 4

Installation 11

Software Download

PacketFence provides a RPM repository for RHEL / CentOS instead of a single RPM file.

For Debian and Ubuntu, PacketFence also provides package repositories.

These repositories contain all required dependencies to install PacketFence. This provides numerous

advantages:

∏ easy installation

∏ everything is packaged as RPM/deb (no more CPAN hassle)

∏ easy upgrade

Software Installation

RHEL / CentOS

In order to use the repository, create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/PacketFence.repo with the

following content:

[PacketFence]

name=PacketFence Repository

baseurl=http://inverse.ca/downloads/PacketFence/RHEL$releasever/$basearch

gpgcheck=0

enabled=0

Once the repository is defined, you can install PacketFence with all its dependencies, and the required

external services (Database server, DHCP server, RADIUS server) using:

yum groupinstall --enablerepo=PacketFence,epel,rpmforge,of Packetfence-complete

Or, if you prefer, to install only the core PacketFence without all the external services, you can use:

yum install --enablerepo=PacketFence,epel,rpmforge,of packetfence

Debian and Ubuntu

In order to use the repository, create a file named /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packetfence.list with

the following content when using Debian 7.0 (Wheezy):

deb http://inverse.ca/downloads/PacketFence/debian wheezy wheezy