Installing VDT RPMs

A subset of the VDT is now available in RPMs. We will be working to make RPMs for the other packages provided by the VDT in the future releases of the VDT.

Caveats:

• Using the VDT RPMs is not as nice as using the Pacman installation. The RPMs do no configuration so it is up to you to figure out how to do it.
• Currently none of the nifty VDT utilities are part of the RPMs.
• This is a subset of the software.
• We do not yet have a YUM or apt repository

With these caveats you might ask why we provide the RPMs at all. There are two reasons. First, they are used by LCG as a basis for their Grid installations. Second, other VDT users may find them useful if they use an cluster management tool like Rocks.

VDT 2.0.0 RPMs

Installing Globus components

As the root user, do the following steps:

1. Download a set of RPMs or Debian files from here. If you need help selecting, see below.
2. Install the RPMs or Debs. This is generally done using rpm -i or dpkg -i
   The files will be installed into /opt
3. Finish the installation by running gpt-postinstall

   export GPT_LOCATION=/opt/gpt
   export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/opt/globus
   cd /opt/gpt/sbin
   ./gpt-postinstall
   

4. Add the following to user's environments:
   • Add GLOBUS_LOCATION=/opt/globus, which is necessary for some software.
   • Add /opt/globus/bin to the PATH
   • Add /opt/globus/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
5. If you are installing server components, do any necessary manual configuration.

Selecting Globus components

For the components listed, look for the RPM with the given prefix

Component	RPM prefix	Info
GPT	gpt-3.2_4.0.8p1	This is necessary for the other Globus components
Core Globus tools	vdt_globus_essentials	grid-proxy-init, grid-proxy-info, etc
GRAM pre-WS	vdt_globus_rm_essentials vdt_globus_rm_client vdt_globus_rm_server	Essentials is a pre-req for client or server
Pre-WS job managers	vdt-globus-jobmanager-common vdt-globus-jobmanager-condor vdt-globus-jobmanager-lsf vdt-globus-jobmanager-pbs	common is a pre-req for other job managers
GRAM WS	vdt-globus-ws-essentials vdt-globus-wsgram-essentials vdt-globus-wsgram-client vdt-globus-wsgram-server	Essentials is a pre-req for client and server
WS job managers	vdt-globus-wsjobmanager-condor vdt-globus-wsjobmanager-pbs vdt-globus-wsjobmanager-lsf
GridFTP	vdt-globus-data-server
Utilities	vdt-compile-globus-core_4.0.8-1 vdt-globus-sdk	Necessary for building against Globus
RLS	vdt-globus-rls-client vdt-globus-rls-server	Replication Lookup Service
UberFTP	ubertftp-client
MyProxy	myproxy
gsissh	gsiopenssh

Other packages available:
vdt-globus-cas-client
vdt-globus-cas-essentials
vdt-globus-cas-server
vdt-globus-info-client
vdt-globus-info-essentials
vdt-globus-info-server
vdt-globus-rft-client
vdt-globus-rft-essentials
vdt-globus-rft-server
vdt-globus-simple-ca
vdt-globus-wsmds-server

Installing CA Certificates via RPM

See http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/2.0.0/certificate_authorities.html#rpm