Novice tar install question

[rurban]

I have a very beginner question. I am trying to install Amanda on a Red Hat ES 4 server. When I go to install the rpm for Amanda it states I need tar 1.15. I downloaded GNUtar 1.19, gunzipped it, untarred it, configured it, ran make on it, and ran make install. It did create a tar binary in /usr/local/bin. My problem is that Red Hat still is looking at the rpm installed tar which is version 1.14, therefore the amanda installed tells me I have an old version of tar. How do I get Red Hat to recognize the new version of GNU tar I installed?
Thanks for the help...Rick

[paddy]

I have a very beginner question. I am trying to install Amanda on a Red Hat ES 4 server. When I go to install the rpm for Amanda it states I need tar 1.15. I downloaded GNUtar 1.19, gunzipped it, untarred it, configured it, ran make on it, and ran make install. It did create a tar binary in /usr/local/bin. My problem is that Red Hat still is looking at the rpm installed tar which is version 1.14, therefore the amanda installed tells me I have an old version of tar. How do I get Red Hat to recognize the new version of GNU tar I installed?
Thanks for the help...Rick

I'm assuming you are installing rpms from Redhat (not from Zmanda downloads (http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php) page.

Please run "amadmin (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/amadmin) xx version". For example:

$ amadmin xx version | grep GNUTAR

See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start#Collecting_configuration_information for more examples.

You will find the location where amanda is looking for tar binary. Please create a link to that location.

Paddy

[yjaquier]

Hi all,

I'm also running RHEL AS 4 and tar 1.15 is not available on RHN for download on RHEL 4 AS. I'm surprised of this requirement for Zmanda 2.6.0...

Regards, Yannick.

[rurban]

I am actually using GNUtar from a site off of Amandas website, not provided from Red Hat. I can not get Amanda installed to even be able to run the amadmin command.

[paddy]

Hi all,

I'm also running RHEL AS 4 and tar 1.15 is not available on RHN for download on RHEL 4 AS. I'm surprised of this requirement for Zmanda 2.6.0...

Regards, Yannick.


It appears Redhat has backported their fixes to tar-1.14-12. We will fix it in next release for RHEL4. Please force install.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0860.html

The requirement was added because we have tested using tar 1.15.1 or later version.

Paddy

[paddy]

I am actually using GNUtar from a site off of Amandas website, not provided from Red Hat. I can not get Amanda installed to even be able to run the amadmin command.

Can you please provide more information (amadmin output)?

Paddy

[rurban]

As I have stated, I can not get Amanda installed to run the amadmin tool.
Due to frustration installing the new version I went to an older version that did not require tar 1.15.
This thread can be closed.
Thanks for trying to help.

[yjaquier]

Hello all,

As suggested I've tried:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm

But now failing for:
warning: amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3c5d1c92
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
useradd: unknown group -d
passwd: Unknown user name 'amandabackup'.
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: Preparing to install: Amanda Community Edition - version 2.6.0
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: Checking for 'amandabackup' user...
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! The 'amandabackup' user account for this system has been !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! created, however the user has no password set. For !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! security purposes this account is normally locked !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! after creation. Unfortunately, when locking this !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! account an error occurred. To ensure the security !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! of your system you should set a password for the !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! user account 'amandabackup' immediately! To set such a !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! password, please issue the following command.: !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! # passwd amandabackup !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44: !!! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! !!!
Apr 25 2008 15:09:44:
Please review '/var/log/amanda/install.err' to correct errors which have prevented the Amanda installaton.
Amanda installation log can be found in '/var/log/amanda/install.log' and errors (if any) in '/var/log/amanda/install.err'.
error: %pre(amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4

Do I need to install an older release on RHEL 4 ?

Thanks & regards, Yannick.

[paddy]

Hello all,

As suggested I've tried:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm

But now failing for:
warning: amanda-backup_server-2.6.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3c5d1c92
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
useradd: unknown group -d
passwd: Unknown user name 'amandabackup'.



This appears to be a problem in preinstall rpm script. We will investigate and get back to you.

Paddy

[paddy]

This appears to be a problem in preinstall rpm script. We will investigate and get back to you.

Paddy


I'm not able to reproduce the problem on RHEL4 ES. can you please run
"rpm -qp --scripts <rpm name>" on your machine and attach the output of the command?

thanks,
Paddy

[yjaquier]

Output attached.

Thanks, Yannick.

[paddy]

This appears to be a problem in preinstall rpm script. We will investigate and get back to you.

Paddy


This issue has been fixed. New 2.6.0 images are available at Zmanda downloads (http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php) page.

thanks,
Paddy

[burnbrighter]

I see the i386 version available. Do you guys have plans on building the x86_64 rpm with bcdtcp support? Thanks