RHEL6

Solution to scp missing on Minimal RHEL6 Install

Submitted by John on Wed, 2011-05-18 12:00

If you choose the minimal installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, you do indeed get a minimal install. It's so minimal that things like wget and scp are missing. It's pretty obvious that yum install wget will get you wget but if you want scp:

yum install openssh-clients
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RHEL6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on Dell OptiPlex 990 Initial Impressions

Submitted by John on Wed, 2011-04-13 16:41

I received a Dell OptiPlex 990 and installed RHEL5 on it. Some preliminary observations:

  • I wanted a RAID 1, so I reached for a trusty 3ware 8006-2LP, which is a 64-bit-capable SATA RAID PCI card that I typically run in a 32-bit PCI slot. But the OptiPlex 990 has placed a heatsink directly behind the PCI slot. The card can't physically fit in the slot because the heatsink is in the way. That led to my next adventure.
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RHEL5
Dell
RHEL6

Compiling and Installing Pubcookie on 64-bit RHEL6

Submitted by John on Thu, 2011-03-03 10:06

Before attempting compilation, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed (and Apache of course):

yum install gcc mod_ssl openssl-devel httpd-devel

Then you're ready:

curl -O http://www.pubcookie.org/downloads/pubcookie-3.3.4a.tar.gz
tar xzvf pubcookie-3.3.4a.tar.gz
cd pubcookie-3.3.4a
./configure
make top_builddir=/usr/lib64/httpd top_srcdir=/usr/lib64/httpd

Then with sudo or as root:

Topic: 
Pubcookie
RHEL6

Installing php-mbstring on RHEL6

Submitted by John on Tue, 2011-03-01 10:00

I wanted to install the mbstring PHP extension on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. But to my surprise, it wasn't there:

# yum install php-mbstring
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
No package php-mbstring available.
Error: Nothing to do

That's because the package is in the RHEL Server Optional repository.

I went into RHN and enabled the repository:

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PHP
RHEL6

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