3rd Party Software Install - Kickstart

Hugh Brown hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu
Wed Oct 21 16:10:18 UTC 2009


Arvind Navale wrote:
> Thank you Jodok for responding and providing example steps. Much Appreciated!!!
> 
> I guess I will be able to use NFS instead of HTTP right? Also the 3rd party software I want to install are not RPM packages but is interactive and need to provide input. To name one I am trying to see if I can install NBU client software on server as a part of post install. So I believe need to provide those inputs in the kickstart profile itself but don't know if I can do that. 
> 
> Regards,
> Arvind.
> 

Depending on the software, you can go through the install once (e.g. 
install to /opt) and then tar up what got installed.  We use this for 
Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, etc.

During kickstart, we just untar to wherever it was originally installed 
(e.g. back in to /opt)

Hugh




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