Installation on Centos (RHEL4)

[holger]

Hi there,

I tried to install Amanda 2.5.0 on a CentOS 4.3 machine by using the RHEL-rpms. Unfortunately the installation stopped, because "tar 1.15" or greater is required. In RHEL4/CentOS there is only version 1.14 of the tar utility.

Does anybody know a source where to get a newer version of tar for RHEL?

Thanks.
Holger

[tkr]

Hi
Looks like for RHEL, you will have to compile from source. I can provide a src rpm if that helps.

Thanks
tk

[tkr]

Looks like tar of i386 should work fine on RHEL.
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/4/i386/tar-1.15.1-11.FC4.i386.html

Thanks
tk

[holger]

Looks like tar of i386 should work fine on RHEL.
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/updates/4/i386/tar-1.15.1-11.FC4.i386.html

Thanks
tk

Hi, you're right. This version works fine on RHEL4. I was a little bit afraid before... :D

Thanks for your help.

[cstaats]

I second that. The FC4 RPM installed fine and works like a champ, I'm at the point in the "test setup" where ammt shows online with my backup dirs.

cheers,
charlie