[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA on CentOS 5.6

[Boris Epstein]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:46 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 12:50 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I am an absolute beginner here... So... I have a machine that only has
>> >> 512 MB of RAM which is too small to house Fedora. So that machine is
>> >> running CentOS 5.6. And now I want to install FreeIPA on it. Has
>> >> anybody done it? If so, how have you done it?
>> >
>> >
>> > FreeIPA is not supported on RHEL/CentOS 5.x. It's simply too old and
>> > cannot meet the minimum pre-requisites.
>> >
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>> Too old? How?
>>
>> http://freeipa.org/page/IPAv2_213
>>
>> This was released in October 2011. So yes, it is over a week old:)
>>
>> But I doubt that makes it ancient:)
>>
>> Boris.
>
> Sorry, that will teach me to leave my pronouns ambiguous.
>
> I mean that RHEL/CentOS 5 is too old to be capable of running FreeIPA.
> There are too many dependencies of FreeIPA that are unmet.
>

This actually came out quite funny:)

Thanks for your advice, by the way.

So what OS would not be too old to run FreeIPA on? Would we be talking CentOS 6?

Boris.