I’ve inherited quite an old SLES 9 32-bit server, which is running quite a critical database in our organization. I’m trying to setup a Nagios NRPE client on this machine in order to be able to monitor it and get alerts when it is failing. However, when I load up YaST and try to install any software it repeatedly asks for the SLES installation CD, even though I’m trying to do an online update.
How can I get the packages installed, that I need from the online repository? i.e. disable YaST from looking for packages on the installation CD?
Note that I tried signing up to the SLES forums, but wasn’t able to as it threw a PHP error every time I tried to sign in. I apologize if I’m asking in the wrong forum.
> Note that I tried signing up to the SLES forums, but wasn’t able to as
> it threw a PHP error every time I tried to sign in. I apologize if I’m
> asking in the wrong forum.
It is indeed the wrong forum, these are dedicated to openSUSE, many of us
have never even used SLES. I would like to help, but I can’t make
appropriate guesses.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
IIRC you can turn off the cd-s as source of packages. On the other hand, if the online package (i.e. from opensuse’s repos ) you are trying to install will need a dependency from the installation cd-s, than there is your explanation on why the cd-s are asked for.
The links for downloads are here: SLES 9 Download - CoolSolutionsWiki but if I am not mistaking you will still need a valid subscription for the SP downloads.
Also, the online update (security patches) will work (will be available to you) ONLY if you have valid subscription from Novell - an username / pass account which correlated to your company’s license.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:36:03 +0000, sergeorion wrote:
> Note that I tried signing up to the SLES forums, but wasn’t able to as
> it threw a PHP error every time I tried to sign in. I apologize if I’m
> asking in the wrong forum.
Send me a PM with information about what error you received and which
specific website you went to, and I’ll see what I can find out.
Am 22.02.2012 03:36, schrieb sergeorion:
> install any software it repeatedly asks for the SLES installation CD,
> even though I’m trying to do an online update.
SUSE announces the end of general support for SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 on
August 31, 2011.
But as I am not a SLES expert I can be wrong and they provide the
repositories for a longer time after the EOL.
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.8.0 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
IIRC one of the e-mails I received this year from Novell due to previous business, with patches info, included updates for SLES 9 also, beside 10 and 11, so I am almost sure they provite LTS for SLES 9 (again from memory but it was something like “long term service pack support”).
I remembered where to disable the CD-s as source: It’s YAST\Software\Change Source of installation
In the same place you can add SLES 9 repositories from opensuse repos, but you’ll have to put the paths manually (I remembered I tested few options until I got the right path yast wants to use).
At the same time, take notice of martin’s info - I have no idea how up-to-date are those repos.
Cheers and good luck.
PS
Oups, I just looked on Search and SLES 9 is not in the list any more… All repos might have been deleted.
Thank you all for the helpful information. I’ve tried changing the source of the packages and it looks like the online repositories were never set up.
I’m going to try and download the SLES9 ISO’s from the link that ghost posted, use that as the software source and see if that has the packages that I need on it. If that doesn’t work I’m going to have to compile from source I guess.
I’ve PM’d hendersj regarding the SUSE forums logon problem.
Online repositories might not have been added since there were none for the standard distro and other types of repos - I mean community repos - (e.g. mysql) since there were not need and the former admin either relied on the novell patches / updates or you did not have a payed-support for those updates.
In any case, the general suggestion is to avoid using community repos for SLES and keep to the novell - supported ones if possible.
If you are talking about “update” repo - that is NOT done / setup in Change Source of Installation but in “Online Update” where you would have to input username / password for the payed account.
About the download links: I think free download will be available for the initial SLES 9 iso images, for the SP cd-s download, you’ll have to own a valid subscription (meaning payed).
In any case, my feeling is that you need to read / learn more about SLES and turn over to SLES forums.
There is always a possibility to switch to opensuse but that will be more work.
An finally regarding your nagios issue: I belive some version of nagios is available on the initial SLES cd-s, have no idea how many patches from Novell it had from it release, so you’d want to be a careful if you install that on a “open machine”.
Nagios should be in this community repo (though some personal repos might still have it too) - Index of /repositories/server:/monitoring but if you look, there is no SLES 9 repo, like I said in the previous post…
You should be able to compile a newer version as shown in the “cool solutions” or use the version on rpmfind but you would still need some dependencies and maybe tools from the CD-s.
