perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Xavier;

Sounds like you should try to enable the EPEL repository, instructions 
can be found here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F

Thanks;

-jason

On 3/14/12 7:52 AM, thus spake Xavier Jeannin:
> Dear All
>
> I am trying to install BWCTL on CentOS 5.8
> the documentation require Iperf 2.0.5 but the site mentioned into
> documentation http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iperf/ does not host any Iperf
> 2.0.5
> Iperf 2.4.1 requires GLIBC_2.7
> [root@214
>  ~]# rpm -ivh iperf-2.0.4-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
> warning: iperf-2.0.4-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key ID 6b8d79e6
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by iperf-2.0.4-1.el6.rf.i686
>
> but my system is updated
> [root@214
>  ~]# yum update glibc.i686
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * base: centos.crazyfrogs.org
> * extras: centos.crazyfrogs.org
> * updates: centos.crazyfrogs.org
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> and my version is glibc.i686 2.5-81 installed
>
> any idea ?
>
> Regards
> Xavier
>
>
>
> Le 20/01/2012 10:54, Domenico Vicinanza a écrit :
> > Hi Xavier,
> >
> > I agree with Brian, we do not expect any problem on Centos 5.X
> > We had a user deploying it yesterday on Scientific Linux (another
> > rebuild of RHEL) and it went absolutely smoothly.
> >
> > Feel free to call me or Szymon should you have any problem.
> > Thanks!
> > Domenico
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> >
> > [mailto:]
> >  On Behalf Of Brian Tierney
> > Sent: 19 January 2012 19:19
> > To: Xavier Jeannin
> > Cc: 
> >
> > Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] new version of PerfSONAR-MDM
> >
> >
> > It should work fine on both Fedora and CentOS.
> >
> > I'm currently running it on CentOS 5.7.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Xavier Jeannin wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All
> > >
> > > Hope I am in the good mailing list, if no sorry for that.
> > >
> > > I have just downloaded the new version of BWCTL-MP of PS-MDM.
> > > In the documentation, it is written that "The packages in the
> > > perfSONAR MDM repository are built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
> > > They have been tested on the latest OS version 5.7."
> > > In order to speed up the test (avoiding to order RedHat Licence), I
> > > would like to install it on a Fedora or CentOS version.
> > > Do you know if it works and which version should be used ?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Xavier
> > >
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