[Freeipa-users] RHEL 5 Compiling ipa-client (only) from source

[Viji V Nair]

Hi,

I have done a manual compilation of ipa-client on an RHEL 5.2 x86_64 system.
After struggling with a lot of errors I finally got it working by following
the below steps.

Can anyone suggest is there anything wrong in my steps? Can I use the same
steps to configure other clients also?

1. Download and  un-compress freeipa source,
http://freeipa.org/downloads/src/freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz

# tar -zxvf freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
# cd freeipa-1.2.1/ipa-client

2. I have installed the following prerequisites after seeing the dependency
errors.

# yum install autoconf automake pkgconfig.x86_64 libtool.x86_64
mozldap-devel.x86_64 krb5-devel.x86_64 openldap-devel.x86_64
python-ldap.x86_64

3. System was complaining about there is no version.m4 file, so I did a copy
paste of

#  cp version.m4.in version.m4

4. System was telling I should add the contents of
/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to aclocal.m4, so I did

#  cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 >> aclocal.m4

5. After this I have complied the source using the following commands.

# ./autogen.sh
# make
# make install

6. When I started ipa-client-install, it was showing so many missing python
module errors, so I have done the following steps to get rid of it.

a. Downloaded python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm from (
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Server/x86_64/python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm)
and installed

# rpm -ivh python-krbV-1.0.13-5.el5.x86_64.rpm

b. Manually build the other python modules.

# cd freeipa-1.2.1/ipa-python
# python setup.py.in build
# python setup.py.in install

c. Copied the required python modules to the actual location

# cp -a /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipaclient
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/

d. Finally I got a version error, I have done a hard coding to fix it.

# cp version.py.in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipa/version.py
# cat /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ipa/version.py

#VERSION="__VERSION__"
VERSION="1.2.1"
#NUM_VERSION=__NUM_VERSION__
NUM_VERSION="1.2.1"

Thanks & Regards
Viji
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