Centos 7

	WARNING
	This is only for developers. CentOS for Amahi is currently ON HOLD!

Objective

Configure and test installation of Amahi 9 with CentOS 7.2 for potential adoption for the next Amahi release. This is ONLY for development testing by the Amahi staff!

To Do

• Create Amahi repo
• Create apps for C7
• Test Apps (only phpSysInfo has been tested)
• Build Amahi-specific RPMs (amahi-anywhere, amahi-greyhole, amahi-plex, amahi-sync, amahi-netboot)
• Test Netinstall method
• Build apps testbot
• Create custom Amahi CentOS 7 ISO (see Create Custom Centos 7 Kickstart boot CD ISO)
• Determine solution to missing packages (from repos) for some applications

Installation

CentOS 7

Download CentOS 7.2:

• Netinstall ISO (376MB):
  • HTTP - CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1511.iso
  • Torrent - CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1511.torrent
• Minimal ISO (603MB):
  • HTTP - CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso
  • Torrent - CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.torrent

Follow the CentOS 7 Minimal Server install guidance using Minimal ISO and create a user (DON'T set root password).

Amahi

Installation must be done as root user.

• Install dependencies:

yum install epel-release nano psmisc wget
yum install gcc mysql-devel ruby-devel rubygems

• Download custom packages:

wget http://tdstatic.net/RPMs/hda-ctl-7.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
wget  http://tdstatic.net/RPMs/hda-platform-9.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
wget  http://tdstatic.net/RPMs/rubygem-mysql2-0.4.4-1.x86-64.rpm
wget  http://tdstatic.net/RPMs/rubygem-ruby-dbus-0.11.1-1.noarch.rpm

• Install custom packages:

yum localinstall hda-ctl-7.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm 
yum localinstall hda-platform-9.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall rubygem-mysql2-0.4.4-1.x86-64.rpm
yum localinstall rubygem-ruby-dbus-0.11.1-1.noarch.rpm

• Install Ruby Gems:

gem install mysql2 ruby-dbus

• Install Amahi:

hda-install INSTALL_CODE

Known Issues

• rubygem-mysql2 and rubygem-ruby-dbus packages not available in CentOS or EPEL repo
• Dashboard reflects MariaDB server not running (Bug #1802)
• Not all app dependencies available in CentOS or EPEL repo (i.e. calibre is not)
• Missing packages affects some apps
  • PHP 5.5 not available in the CentOS or EPEL repo (see PHP 5.5) as
  • RPM Fusion Repos do not appear available for CentOS 7 (see RPM Fusion)
• RepoForge (formerly RPMForge) does not appear to be a solution to replace RPM Fusion. It's outdated and research indicates it's a dead project.

Bug Reports

See Amahi Bug #2081 for development progress.

Development Notes

• Install of CentOS 7.2 Minimal ISO is the only tested method
• Procedures for Amahi install have not been sufficiently tested
• Platform (Bug #1386) checklist was completed with no issues