Installing Uyuni on Enterprise Linux 9

You can follow these instructions to install Uyuni on Enterpise Linux 9 variants from Red Hat, Alma Linux or Rocky Linux. Please let me know if below instructions do not work for you (or if they work). (via ws2011 at bluhm-de dot com.)

You can report issues here, if you want me to look into them. Or you can report issues here if you want the Uyuni community to look into them.

Last tested: 2023-08-23

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This page is work in progress on how to install Uyuni on Alma Linux 9. The work here will eventually feed back to the Uyuni project. Check back for updates as I progress.

Source: https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html

Base: Alma Linux 9 minimal install.

The full script below can be executed remotely running:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbluhm/uyuni-repo/master/install9.sh | bash

# Preparing base AlmaLinux with EPEL and language pack

setenforce Permissive # disable SELinux for this session
sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/sysconfig/selinux # disable SELinux for good.
LANGPACK=glibc-langpack-en # UPDATE THIS TO THE LANGPACK OF YOUR CHOICE!
dnf -y update
dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm $LANGPACK # Installing EPEL and language pack
#Note: Locale has to be set to UTF-8 (i.e. "localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8")

# Let's install Uyuni

REPO_SOURCE=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sbluhm:/branches:/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Master

dnf -y config-manager --set-enabled crb # required for dependencies
rpm --import ${REPO_SOURCE}/EL_9/repodata/repomd.xml.key
dnf -y config-manager --add-repo ${REPO_SOURCE}/EL_9/
dnf -y config-manager --add-repo ${REPO_SOURCE}:/Other/EL_9/
dnf -y config-manager --add-repo ${REPO_SOURCE}:/Other:/EL/EL_9/
rpm --import https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-PGDG-14
dnf -y config-manager --add-repo https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/14/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/
NEWPACKAGES=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbluhm/uyuni-repo/master/new-packages9.txt)
dnf -y install patterns-uyuni_server $NEWPACKAGES

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbluhm/uyuni-repo/master/root/setup_env.sh > /root/setup_env.sh
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbluhm/uyuni-repo/master/patch9.sh | bash # Installs current fixes
# Edit your installation configuration here NOW (do it manually): /root/setup_env.sh

# Verify that you have a FQDN set.
hostname

# Start the installation of the server now:
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/mgr-setup -s

Open Issues:

https://github.com/sbluhm/uyuni/issues

Work in Progress:

https://github.com/users/sbluhm/projects/2/views/1