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Linux rhel 6.0 "install" robustness #55
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When you download 64-bit Linux Binaries (.tar.gz), there are no .rpm packages. I saw the curl/yum series of instructions, however we do not have a Red Hat subscription, so were hoping to use yum to install, but not possible w/out n .rpm package.
Did notice that expanding the packages, all components seem to be there. After setting PATH to the installed directories, I tried an npm install of an application and it worked fine.
-Is this "expand-and-set-PATH" installation valid - or is this a problem waiting to happen?
We installed v4.2.3 on RHEL 6.
-Any caveats?
Thanks and regards
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bnoordhuis commentedon Dec 21, 2015
It is, that's (one of) the intended ways of installing it.
npm installof native add-ons may be an issue due to the old compiler in the base install. Node.js itself should work fine though, RHEL 6 is explicitly supported.nomad789 commentedon Dec 21, 2015
Thank you bnoordhuis.
Regarding the second item, did have some issues with an application requiring GLIBC 2.14 libraries
Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found ... Error(native) - but working through with application team on that issue. We have: rpm -qa on glib:
glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64 - thanks again.
bnoordhuis commentedon Dec 21, 2015
No problem. I'll close out the issue.