RHEL 5.3 Yum Repository, xen & phpMyAdmin

byon · 07-05-2011, 03:20 PM

Hi all

I am running RHEL 5.3 with outdated subscription. I need to update and install xen and phpmyadmin on this however i am unable to do any installations as the yum packages are not updated.

I have been searching and trying out many solutions found via google however am unable to update xen nor phpmyadmin still.

Can anyone shed some light?

Thank you!

T3RM1NVT0R · 07-05-2011, 03:58 PM

Hi there,

Welcome to LQ!!!

One way:

Renew your subscription ;-)

Other way:

Get the source rpms from: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/en...r/en/os/SRPMS/

Compile them and install.

You can navigate around in the above mentioned link to see if you find more relevant packages in some other folder.

John VV · 07-05-2011, 05:58 PM

Renew the required red hat subscription .
Also think about upgrading to the current 5 series RHEL 5.6 .
or
BUY a longterm support contract for 5.3
Red hat dose back port the security fixes to older versions but you MUST have a support contract for that.

chrism01 · 07-05-2011, 07:37 PM

Last but not least, if you don't / can't renew, replace with CENTOS (free version of RHEL).

byon · 07-11-2011, 05:24 AM

Sigh. the management is not keen to upgrade RHN subscriptions.
Is it possible to do updates to my box? I need xen and phpmyadmin to be installed on my box and i'm having trouble compiling it.

John VV · 07-11-2011, 01:33 PM

you could always build from source

Quote:

the management is not keen to upgrade RHN subscriptions.

You do at least HAVE a long term support contract , for the backported security fixes , right ?

this copy of 5.3 is a registered copy ?

red hat is not free you MUST have a longterm ( 5 to 7 year for the older 5.3) support contract

for xen ? rhel6.1 is much better but it will be in rhn

Code:

yum search xen 
---- and ----
yum search phpmyadmin

should show results

but for phpomyadmin i would grab it from there web site and manually install

byon · 07-12-2011, 10:30 AM

yes we bought it together with dell poweredge server.

what happens is xen is outdated at 3.0.3 and phpmyadmin requires mcrypt support.

John VV · 07-12-2011, 02:10 PM

build a new xen kernel from source and passably break your support contract
install a newer mysql
install a newer php
install a newer phpmyadmin
and possibly a newer Apache

manually from source