I'm looking around for some docs or a tutorial on installing CloudStack on Slackware.

The official CloudStack install guide is primarly geared towards installing on an rpm based distro.

Specifically, I want to install the cloudstack 3.x Management Server on the Slackware box.

Once I "git clone git://github.com/CloudStack/CloudStack.git", the ./Cloudstack/build/deploy/install.sh checks for specific versions of MySQL rpms, Selinux (set permissive) Tomcat, etc., and I think I need some help getting past this in the instructions.

I don't see any real reason, if MySQL and Tomcat are installed, why one would actually need to use CentOS/64 6.2+ instead of Slackware64 13.37 or -current.

Does anyone have any notes on this or know of a link to a howto or tutorial?

cloudstack infrastructure looks like a classic load of redhat-isms to sort out, from which Slackwares fully functional 'rpm' will probably not save you. Might be worth playing in a fedora VM environment before trying to layer it on Slackware.

Hopefully you probably figured that out a month ago

Cheers,

Yes, and I see you feel my pain

I'm running it w/CentOS right now w/o incident in production, but the whole ./configure; make; make install really should apply, IMO, to most software. Why some developers and teams insist on hemming their products into a single distro family is beyond me. Maybe it is for a lack of understanding what UNIX is supposed to be. I just don't know.

There's just no reason I can see of to limit software in this way.

I'll continue to leave this thread open, as it is indeed NOT SOLVED yet, and work toward eventually having a Slackware-able version or procedure for running the CloudStack Management Server on Slackware.

Thanks for your input too!

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