Tag : centos

As part of a project we’re working on, we needed to install the BOSH CLI on a Digital Ocean droplet running CentOS 7. The directions at bosh.io provided a list of all the packages that needed to be installed prior to installing the gem: yum install gcc ruby ruby-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel postgresql-libs sqlite-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel

Basic Setup As root execute the following to download and install some basic linux apps: sudo su – yum install git wget vim htop lsof iftop -y Download the Installer Now we will download the appropriate linux installer for Splunk wget -O splunk-6.1.1-207789-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm ‘http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.1.1/splunk/linux/splunk-6.1.1-207789-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&ac=&wget=true&name=wget&platform=Linux&architecture=x86_64&version=6.1.1&product=splunk&typed=release’; New or additional downloads are available at http://www.splunk.com/download?r=header Run the installer