Chapter 2. Installing from RHN or from an ISO Image

This chapter describes how to install Red Hat Application Server and Red Hat Developer Suite.

2.1. Installing using Red Hat Network (RHN) Channels

These steps describe how to use Red Hat Network Channels to install Red Hat Application Server and Developer Suite on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 system. You will need to have a registered account on RHN and to have obtained access to the Red Hat Application Server channel. This is usually done as part of a subscription or evaluation process. The registered target system will need to be installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and must have either direct access to RHN, or be a user of an RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server.

This is the installation procedure:

  1. Install the target system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

  2. Register the system with RHN.

  3. Using your enterprise account or evaluation access, subscribe your system to the Red Hat Application Server 1.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras channels on RHN. To obtain these entitlements, contact your Red Hat account manager. When available, the packages should appear in the Software tab. For more information about how to use RHN, see: https://rhn.redhat.com/help/

  4. Perform an up2date to ensure that the current versions of the packages are installed. Red Hat Application Server and Red Hat Developer Suite were tested with a full U2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 installation.

  5. If the IBM Java JDK or BEA JRockit JDK is not installed on the system, use RHN to install your JDK of choice by running either:

    up2date java-1.4.2-ibm-devel

    or

    up2date java-1.4.2-bea-devel
  6. If you do not have the PostgreSQL RDBMS set up on your system with JDBC support, use RHN to install it by running:

    up2date rh-postgresql-jdbc rh-postgresql-server
  7. Install the Red Hat Application Server. RHN will handle the cross-dependencies automatically, installing and updating software packages as needed:

    up2date jonas jonas-docs jonas-examples jonas-client rh-jonas-docs
  8. Install the Red Hat Developer Suite. RHN will handle the cross-dependencies automatically, installing and updating software packages as needed:

    up2date eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde eclipse-cdt eclipse-rpm \ 
    eclipse-oprofile eclipse-changelog eclipse-lomboz