Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Resolved (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 26.2.0
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Fix Version/s: Meridian-2020.1.0, 26.2.2
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Component/s: Documentation/Installation
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Security Level: Default (Default Security Scheme)
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Environment:RHEL 7 / CentOS 7
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HB Backlog Status:Backlog CM
Description
The instructions in the install guide for RHEL systems are specific to RHEL 8, but make no mention of that fact. We should either write up a separate path for RHEL 7 or, as a bare minimum, add a summary warning at the top of the RHEL section.
The relevant differences between RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 include:
- Need to use yum on RHEL 7 (not dnf) to install packages (EDIT: as Dino points out, we could just say yum for both, since it's aliased to dnf on RHEL 8)
- The URL for installing the repository RPM needs to be changed
- Additional work is required to install PostgreSQL 10 or newer on RHEL 7 (whereas RHEL 8 ships with PostgreSQL 10 by default)
I encountered this issue in the course of helping a support customer get a new lab system set up.