I’ve posted some new packages for php 5.4 in the TechRockDo yum repository. I originally had uploaded some under the php package name. To avoid confusion with doing an update from 5.3 straight to 5.4, I’ve since renamed them as php54. The original packages can be found under the deprecated tree of the repository.
Repoview packages for the various RHEL versions and architectures are listed below:
If you want to install and use these packages, just run
[root@cent6 ~]# yum install php54
I’ve built and uploaded several new packages and uploaded them to the TechRockDo Yum Repository. In case you missed the previous post, you can use the TechRockDo Yum Repository by issuing the following command (use the correct one based on your version of RHEL/Cent and your system architecture):
[root@teste ~]# rpm -ivh http://yum.techrockdo.com/yum/RHEL/5/`uname -i`/trd-release-1-1.el5.trd.noarch.rpm
or
[root@teste ~]# rpm -ivh http://yum.techrockdo.com/yum/RHEL/6/`uname -i`/trd-release-1-1.el6.trd.noarch.rpm
The following packages have been added: Continue reading »
The TechRockDo yum repository has been created as a place to hold all rpm’s that I roll and use. I’m making them available to the public; I hope you find everything you find here useful. For now, only CentOS and RHEL 6 are supported. There are channels for both 32- and 64-bit architectures. To use the repository, just install the trd-release package for your architecture:
[root@cent6 ~]# rpm -ivh http://yum.techrockdo.com/yum/RHEL/6/i386/trd-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
This will install the yum repository definition and the GPG key. After that, you’ll be able to use the repository just like any other.
Enjoy!
A while back, I described a method for authenticating CentOS and RHEL servers to Active Directory using LDAP. While this approach is easy to set up and works right out of the gate, there are a few drawbacks to it that I’ve run across:
In this article, I’ll describe how to use winbind to join your Linux server to a Microsoft Active Directory and become a domain member.
Recently, I wanted to use the built-in iSight on my Mac under my Windows 7 virtual machine that I run under VMware Fusion. I figured that the VMware Tools would have installed drivers for it, but this is not the case. Under normal circumstances, you’d need to run Boot Camp Assistant located under /Applications/Utilities and have it download the drivers and burn them to a CD for you. For some reason, this wasn’t working in my set up as Boot Camp Utility kept giving me an error that it couldn’t modify my disk’s partitions to work with Boot Camp properly. That’s great, but I didn’t really want it to do anything with my partitions anyways since I’m just planning on installing the drivers and not building a separate Boot Camp install of Windows. Continue reading »
This past Friday, my son and I attended promotional testing; I for my upper green belt, he for his green belt. Despite being a few ranks up from white, this was our first public promotional testing. We were both a little nervous and weren’t quite sure what to expect. In this instance, they split us up by white and yellow belts, green belts, and blue, red, and black belts, so my son and I weren’t in the same group. There were a ton of white and yellow belts to be tested this time around and I felt kind of bad for the kids in that group. Some of them sure looked bored waiting for their turn. Continue reading »
For the past few weeks, I’ve been spinning my wheels trying to get CentOS 6 to use Active Directory (Windows 2008 R2-based) for user information and authentication. I currently am using LDAP for these purposes, but in the interest of moving towards a more centralized environment am working towards having all of the UNIX and Linux hosts use AD as a central repository for user information and authentication. This is can be done relatively easily and can be done a couple of different ways that I will outline for you here.
If you’ve ever been in a store, library, or some other public place that has a community bulletin board, you’ve no doubt seen the ads that people put up that have the little pull tabs at the bottom that have a phone number on them. Apparently certain people thought it would be funny to create less-than-sincere ads and post them in various places. I thought some of them were pretty good, and I wanted to put one or two up in places near me. So I went ahead and re-created them. I’ve also created a few of my own.
A new TLF yum repository has been created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-based distributions (ie CentOS 6). As of right now, there is only a 64-bit repo. 32-bit packages are forthcoming. php 5.3.6 packages are available here by running the following set of commands:
rpm -Uvh http://yum.thelinuxfix.com/RHEL/6/x86_64/tlf-release-1-2.el6.noarch.rpm yum install php php-mysql php-cli php-mbstring
There are several php packages available and the above yum command is only an example if you wanted to install php, the cli, and the mysql and mbstring extensions. The extensions you need will be based upon your usage.
The Linux Fix yum repository has been updated with new rpm’s for the tlf-release package and for php version 5.3.6. The new tlf-release package includes changes to the layout of the yum repository, including splitting off a separate 32-bit and 64-bit repo. You can read the release notes for php 5.3.6 here.
You may install or update the TLF repository with the following command:
rpm -Uvh http://yum.thelinuxfix.com/RHEL/5/i386/tlf-repo-1-2.noarch.rpm
Note that this command will work on 64-bit architectures as well. I also need to repeat the disclaimer that using any of the database extensions for this version of php will also update sqlite to version 3.6.20, which replaces some pretty core functionality of RHEL and CentOS, so please use them at your own risk.
