We’ve just got ourselves a couple of new servers for running SONAR on, for internal use and demonstration. They are quite beefy, with 8GB RAM, 15k disks, and 8 x 3.2GHz threads. We decided to go with centos 5 as the operating system, since we have had pain installing Oracle on our debian platforms. Here is the install procedure I uncovered, which gets the server ready for SONAR on either MySQL or oracle. It covers installing Ruby, RubyGems, lots of useful Gems, Java, and Oracle 10g
yum install -y ruby
yum install -y ruby-devel ruby-docs ruby-ri ruby-irb ruby-devel ruby-rdoc
yum install -y w3m # for text based browsing and downloading, where curl won't work
# download rubygems from rubygems.org with w3m then...
gunzip rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
tar xf rubygems-0.9.4.tar
cd rubygems-0.9.4
ruby setup.rb
# get jdk rpm from java.sun.com and install
# add an /etc/profile.d/java.sh file, containing
##
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default
export JAVA_HOME
##
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/java.sh
source /etc/profile.d/java.sh
yum install -y ImageMagick-devel
yum install -y perl-DBI
yum remove -y sendmail
yum install -y postfix
chkconfig postfix on
yum install -y ntp
chkconfig ntpd on
yum install -y mysql-server mysql mysql-devel
chkconfig mysqld on
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '<password>'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h <hostname> password '<password>'
yum install -y gcc
gem install builder
gem install camping
gem install capistrano
gem install cgi_multipart_eof_fix
gem install cheat
gem install chronic
gem install ci_reporter
gem install daemons
gem install fastthread
gem install gem_plugin
gem install hpricot
gem install image_science
gem install jerbil --source http://code.trampolinesystems.com
gem install json
gem install markaby
gem install metaid
gem install mongrel
gem install needle
gem install net-sftp
gem install net-ssh
gem install rake
gem install rmagick # [ ignore errors about fonts... they are just for the docs ]
yum install -y libxml2-devel
yum install -y libxslt-devel
gem install ruby-xslt
gem install rubyforge
gem install RubyInline
gem install mysql — –build-flags –with-mysql-config
yum install -y httpd
yum install -y subversion
# install rpmforge for centos 5 as detailed here :
# http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge#head-d766e7aacdee6150c6705d9369aa36c9bcabc139
yum install -y firefox
yum install -y xorg-x11-xauth
yum install -y vnc-server
yum install -y emacs
yum install -y libXtst
yum install -y xorg-x11-utils
yum install -y xorg-x11-resutils
yum install -y xorg-x11-server-utils
yum install -y compat-libgcc-296 compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 openmotif22
yum groupinstall -y “Development Libraries”
yum groupinstall -y “Development Tools”
yum groupinstall -y “Legacy Software Development”
yum groupinstall -y “Server Configuration Tools”
yum groupinstall -y “X Software Development”
yum groupinstall -y “Administration Tools”
# fire up a vncserver on the remote machine :
vncserver
# and enable connections to the X server from other accounts :
xhost +
# connect an ssh session from your local machine, forwarding the vnc port [ 5900 + screen # ]
# connect your local vnc client to the server
# run firefox on the server
# download oracle 10g from www.oracle.com, thus avoiding having to upload 750M at 512Kb/s
# install as shown here : http://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/681?page=0%2C3
# and add an init.d startup script as described here : http://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/50?page=0%2C4
# done ! reboot to check that your init.d scripts are functioning correctly
