To the kind people of SO,
I am having trouble finding any resources for installing NodeJS (current or earlier version) onto a RHEL4 box. I am starting to doubt if this is even possible as the OS dates back 10 years now. The machine has Python 2.3.4 and GCC 3.4.6, if that's of any help.
I am hoping someone here could maybe point me in the right direction, I feel I may be grasping for straws at this point.
There is only a handful of possibility, since from comment, you said upgrading the box is not a option. (I d like you to know there is security implications too, you should have a up-to-date OS):
Install the official way, which need yum and sudo rights.
Compile from source, which in theory doesn't need sudo rights nor yum.
Note that, even if compiling from source should be easy:
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/node-v4.4.7-linux-x86.tar.gz
tar -xzf node-v4.4.7-linux-x86.tar.gz
cd ./node-v4.4.7-linux-x86
./configure #Options
make
make install
You will almost always run into issues because of not installed or outdated dependencies. At this step, you may want to track down a previously supported version of node.js for RHEL4 (0.10.x?), or try to make a case about upgrading the box.
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I have a RHEL system which by default was running Python2.7 and Python3.4
I needed Python3.6 for a project I wanted to work on and so I downloaded it and built it from source. I ran make and make install which hindsight may have been the wrong decision.
Now I do not seem to have any internet connectivity. Does anyone know what I may have over written to cause this or at least where specifically I can look to track this issue down?
Note: I can Putty into the Linux machine but it doesn't seem to have any other connectivity, specifically HTTPS
It's a bit weird that this would break network connectivity. One possible explanation is that the system has networking scripts or a network manager that relies on Python, and it got broken after make install replaced your default Python installation. It may be possible to fix this by reinstalling your RHEL Python packages (sorry, cannot offer more detailed help there, as I don't have access to a RHEL box).
I guess the lesson is "be careful about running make install as superuser". To easily install and manage different Python versions (separate from the system Python), the Anaconda Python distribution would be a good solution.
I suggest to undo that 3.6 installation and use the Software Collections version of python 3.6. See here for python 3.6 installation. Software Collections install "along side" the original versions so as to not affect the OS - and they are included in the subscription.
So after a lot of time slamming my head against the wall I got it worked out. My best guess is that the system (RHEL 7) relied on something from its default Python2.7 installation to handle SSL negotiations. Installing 3.6 alongside must have overwritten some pointer. Had I done this correctly, with altinstall all would have likely been fine.
The most frustrating part of this is that there were no error messages, connections just timed out.
To fix this, I had to uninstall all Python versions and then reinstalled Python2.7 - Once Python2 was back in the system it all seemed to work well.
i'm learning linux kunnel programming. however, i faced problem that gcc version is too high to execute 2.4kunnel "make" command(make bzImage), I try to find solution. but in debian case solution does not exist, just for ubuntu, centOs ect... please help me Or, link that about my problem.
P.S ) What i want version of gcc is 3.3 version, it doesn't work use command apt-get install gcc-3.3
Why would you learn based on 2.4?
Your question is wrong anyway. You will likely need other old tools. The way to go is to download an entire debian system and chroot inside. This can be achieved with debootstrap.
However, as noted earlier, you should not stick to 2.4 in the first place.
I have never used Linux OS. Want to know how we can start compiling Apache,Mysql and php in Linux and is it necessary to configure it.
I tried doing it by using cd/user/scr/httpd_2.0.09
Do we need to downloads the set up from google
Do yourself a favour and don't try to compile your own webserver etc. ;)
Aside from the fact that it's a lot of work to set up the tools for compiling, resolve dependencies, and debug possible errors, you will have to do the same procedure with every tiny update – instead of simply getting a new version via your package manager.
If you use a common distribution, install the packages required for the so-called LAMP stack, and configure them properly. That will be hard enough for starters.
If you're using Ubuntu, have a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
Actually installing binaries from repositories is less painful than compiling, but if you really want so, you may install Gentoo or other source-based distributive. I've simply described compilation of MySQL 5.5 in my blog.
To compile packages on Debian based systems you need to install build-essential and cmake package (and maybe some other *-dev packages, which appears to be missing during source configure).
For example to compile MySQL 5.5 it is enough to run:
cmake . #yep, with dot. Will prepare your source according to your system
make
make install #will install compiled binaries to system
I am comparatively new to Linux. I am running Fedora 64 bit at my PC. I am having difficulty setting up ddd with bashdb. I am able to install it using yum but when I run it for bashdb, the software environment for ddd comes up but it keeps on working for infinite time, unless I manually kill it.
I used google to know what the problem is and came to know many people are having same problem, when using linux's package installers. It has bugs so I have to compile the latest source and install it manually. So I downloaded the source and tried to ./configure, it produced the following error and exited:
configure: error: Cannot find termcap compatible library
I searched again and found out I need termcap library at my PC, here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddd/2013-01/msg00004.html
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/unices/58299/
I used yum to install ncurses but found out it is already installed. Used locate to find the path of ncurses and passed it to configure using following commands:
sudo ./configure --with-termlib-libraries=/lib/libncurses.so.5
sudo ./configure --with-termlib-libraries=/lib/libncurses.so.5.9
Still, I am having the same error.
It is very frustrating because I have tried almost everything I found on internet. May be, there is a minor point that I am overlooking due to my inexperience. My main concern is to be able to debug complex bash scripts that I am going to develop in near future. I am not very comfortable with command line debugging i.e. without an interface. Any tips/advice that, can get me going with debugging with some other application may be, are also welcomed
I installed the ncurses development package to get past this problem:
sudo yum install ncurses-devel*
Been trying to upgrade my subversion installation, but due to (what I believe) are limited rights (I'm using hosted Linux account), I'm not able to properly "./configure" and compile the source code (see posts Post1 and Post2 if very interested)
So, I'm thinking if I could just download pre-compiled binaries, the just might solve my problems. If you have better ideas - I'd love to hear that too!
NB: I'm not able to call aptitude or apt-get install subversion as suggested by subversion.tigris.com
I'm also interested in knowing how I would go about installing those pre-compiled binaries :)
You can extract the binaries from the deb package for your architecture (which you can download from here) using dpkg-deb -x.
So for example you can do this if you're on i386:
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb
dpkg -x subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb subversion
Of course you might have to do some tweaking to make it work. Extracting a package is not the same thing as installing it.
Look at the Debian list of SVN packages, I would assume the etch (stable) is the one you need.
Also see this thread on the same topic.