Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Installing the Spacewalk server

We will use CentOS 7 as our base OS to install the Spacewalk server.

1. Install the EPEL-release package repository:

    yum -y install epel-release  

2. Configure the JPackage repository: We need to configure the JPackage repository, as many packages are a part of this repo. Copy paste the following command or you can directly add the repo details inside the /etc/yum.repo.d/ directory as well:

    cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo << EOF
    [jpackage-generic]
    name=JPackage generic                                                                                 #baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
    mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?    dist=generic&type=free&release=5.0
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
    EOF

3. Configure ...