Re: [PacketFence-users] Finding the Installer...

[James T. <jam...@wa...>]

Hi Nick,
The relevant part of the Administration Guide is:

For RHEL / CentOS:
In order to use the repository, just create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/PacketFence.repo withthe following content:
[PacketFence]
name=PacketFence Repository
baseurl=http://inverse.ca/downloads/PacketFence/RHEL$releasever/$basearch
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

Do you have that file with that contents?

--
James Turner
IT Systems Administrator, Wadham College

From: Nick Daisley [mailto:nic...@hi...]
Sent: 18 January 2013 14:21
To: pac...@li...
Subject: [PacketFence-users] Finding the Installer...

I have been round in circles trying to get PacketFence to install, failing each time at the (almost) final fence: the installation of the package itself.

This is a CentOS 6 system, fully updated, and with all dependencies addressed so far as I am able at this point.

So far as I can determine from internet resources, I have set up software repositories correctly, but still, the installation process cannot find the installer - so either it has been moved, or there is some distant corner of the galaxy that this system is still not finding. The server is behind firewalls etc, but I'm not clear why that should be a problem given that I have managed to find and install everything else.

[also, I have tried different capitalisation of the installer: Packetfence, packetfence, PacketFence... it is reported differently on various web resources]

Using the command in the following form, with system response:
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# yum groupinstall --enablerepo=PacketFence.repo, epel,rpmforge,of Packetfence-complete

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink
 * base: mirror.ox.ac.uk
 * epel: mirror01.th.ifl.net
 * extras: mirrors.coreix.net
 * rpmforge: www.mirrorservice.org<http://www.mirrorservice.org>
 * updates: mirror01.th.ifl.net
of
rpmforge
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
Warning: Group Packetfence-complete does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
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Please advise - how are the repositories supposed to be defined, and in what files would you expect them to be defined? There's clearly something missing still....

Thank you,

Nick