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How to install EDB-AS without it’s software repositories ?

Posted by FatDBA on April 3, 2021

https://fatdba.com/2021/04/03/how-to-install-edb-as-without-its-software-repositories/

Hi Everyone,

Many of you might be thinking after reading the title – Why to write about such a simple or rudimentary task, what is so tricky about installing EDB PostgreSQL software ? I know it’s quite easy and straight forward, but only if you are able to add the EDB repository to your server or register it, if you fail to add or register it, then it will be very difficult and becomes a tedious and a time consuming activity to install all of the software’s and their long list of dependencies. This post is all about how to deal with such situation, how to download the source RPMs and install them on the server if you are not able to add the EDB repository.

First step is to download the complete EDB’s tarball, I am downloading the complete tarball here as I don’t want to miss any dependent packages which are needed by the core components. This tarball is close to 1.8 GBs in size, you can download the file using below wget command, here you need to use your EDB credentials.

wget https://prashant.dixit:password@yum.enterprisedb.com/edb/redhat/edb_redhat_rhel-7-x86_64.tar.gz

Now, once the tarball is installed, we can go and create the YUM local repository, though to create YUM repository is optional as you can also install RPMs directly, but will make your work lot easier otherwise you have to look out for dependencies manually. So, I have deceided to create the local repository here.

Once the above file is downloaded, unzip it. You will see list of all core and dependent packages/rpm, just like below.

….
….
edb-pgpool40-4.0.8-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm sslutils_96-1.3-2.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
edb-pgpool40-4.0.9-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm wxjson-1.2.1-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
edb-pgpool40-devel-4.0.6-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm wxjson-1.2.1-2.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
edb-pgpool40-devel-4.0.8-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm wxjson-devel-1.2.1-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
edb-pgpool40-devel-4.0.9-1.rhel7.x86_64.rpm wxjson-devel-1.2.1-2.rhel7.x86_64.rpm
…
…

Next I will create a directory which will be used as a repository container.
[root@canttowin edb]# mkdir -p /home/user/repo

move all unzipped files/rpms to this new directory.
[root@canttowin edb]# mv * /home/user/repo

change permissions of the directory.
[root@canttowin edb]# chown -R root.root /home/user/repo
[root@canttowin edb]# chmod -R o-w+r /home/user/repo

Now we can go and create the repository, for that we will use ‘createrepo‘ command.
[root@canttowin edb]# createrepo /home/user/repo
Spawning worker 0 with 1151 pkgs
Workers Finished
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete

Now let’s create the YUM repository entry under /etc/yum.repos.d
[root@canttowin edb]# more /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo
[local]
name=Prashant Local EDB Repo
baseurl=file:///home/user/repo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[root@canttowin edb]#

All set! let’s try to look for any EDB’s package using this new local repository

[root@canttowin ~]# yum search edb-as12-server
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
=============================================================== N/S matched: edb-as12-server ================================================================
edb-as12-server.x86_64 : EnterpriseDB Advanced Server Client and Server Components
edb-as12-server-client.x86_64 : The client software required to access EDBAS server.
edb-as12-server-cloneschema.x86_64 : cloneschema is a module for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-contrib.x86_64 : Contributed source and binaries distributed with EDBAS
edb-as12-server-core.x86_64 : The core programs needed to create and run a EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-devel.x86_64 : EDBAS development header files and libraries
edb-as12-server-docs.x86_64 : Extra documentation for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-edb-modules.x86_64 : EDB-Modules for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-indexadvisor.x86_64 : Index Advisor for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-libs.x86_64 : The shared libraries required for any EDBAS clients
edb-as12-server-llvmjit.x86_64 : Just-In-Time compilation support for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-parallel-clone.x86_64 : parallel_clone is a module for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-pldebugger.x86_64 : PL/pgSQL debugger server-side code
edb-as12-server-plperl.x86_64 : The Perl procedural language for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-plpython.x86_64 : The Python procedural language for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-plpython3.x86_64 : The Python3 procedural language for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-pltcl.x86_64 : The Tcl procedural language for EDBAS
edb-as12-server-sqlprofiler.x86_64 : SQL profiler for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server
edb-as12-server-sqlprotect.x86_64 : SQL Protect for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server

Great, so we are now able to look and install all our EDB packages through YUM, it’s lot easier than manually fixing dependencies and install core packages.