FirstTimeInstallation

This installation tutorial is based on installation of the ANDS Services on a CentOS 6 operating system. ANDS envisages that all the open source software in the software stack will be compatible with various other Linux distributions, but does not support/provide installation notes for these operating systems.

ANDS recommends using the Nectar Research Cloud as a testing platform for deploying the software stack. A preconfigured image may be available in the near future -- please contact us if you are interested in helping out!

System configuration

From a stock Centos 6 installation, run a yum update to ensure that the kernel and system libraries are up-to-date.

The ANDS software dependencies are easily resolved by configuring 3rd-party software repositories including EPEL and REMI:

• Download the latest version of the EPEL RPM from: http://mirror.optus.net/epel/6/i386/repoview/epel-release.html
• Download the latest version of the REMI RPM from: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
• Install these RPMs using rpm -Uvh <filename>.rpm

Example:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm