h1. RPM's distribution based installation

We maintain a repository for RHEL and Fedora (and clones) - you may add it via:

h2. Stable

h3. Puppet 

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yumrepo { 'foreman':

    descr => 'Foreman Repo',

    baseurl => 'http://yum.theforeman.org/stable',

    gpgcheck => '0',

    enabled => '1'

}

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h3. Quick and dirty

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cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/foreman.repo << EOF

[foreman]

name=Foreman Repo

baseurl=http://yum.theforeman.org/stable

gpgcheck=0

enabled=1

EOF

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yum install foreman

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h2. Development

1.) For RHEL 6 ensure your system is subscribed to EPEL. 

For RHEL 5 you will need to be subscribed to both EPEL and the RHEL Virtualization RHN Channel.

Also be advised, that on RHEL5 the Foreman Repo will update Ruby to version 1.8.7. This has 

the potential to break stuff (like passenger, notes below on getting it working again below), 

so be sure you want to proceed before committing to the installation.

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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

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2.) Install the foreman-release.rpm for your version of RHEL or Fedora

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http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el5/foreman-release.rpm

http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el6/foreman-release.rpm

http://yum.theforeman.org/development/f16/foreman-release.rpm

http://yum.theforeman.org/development/f17/foreman-release.rpm

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3.) Install foreman and other foreman-* packages to add functionality:

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foreman               Foreman server

foreman-proxy         Foreman Smart Proxy

foreman-cli           Foreman CLI utility

foreman-libvirt       libvirt provisioning support

foreman-ovirt         ovirt/RHEV provisioning support

foreman-ec2           EC2 provisioning support

foreman-vmware        VMware provisioning support

foreman-console       Console additions

foreman-mysql         MySQL database support

foreman-mysql2        MySQL database support

foreman-postgresql    PostgreSQL database support

foreman-sqlite        SQLite database support

foreman-test          Testing support (dependency rpm's not built yet)

foreman-devel         Development support (dependency rpm's not built yet)

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5.) Configure

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Edit /etc/foreman/settings.yaml and /etc/foreman/database.yml

su - foreman -s /bin/bash -c /usr/share/foreman/extras/dbmigrate

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6.) Start the foreman service or set up passenger

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service foreman start

Or:

Passenger packages/repos are available at http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/

Note that because Foreman requires ruby 1.8.7 it is upgraded on RHEL5 and so the RPM's at the URL above will not run on RHEL5. 

Fortunately it is fairly easy to get it working again. After foreman is installed ensure /usr/sbin is in your path so that 

the axps binary can be found, otherwise the rpm's may fail to build while complaining about being unable to find some files.

Then do the following:

yum localinstall http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/x86_64/rubygem-daemon_controller-0.2.5-1.noarch.rpm

wget http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/SRPMS/rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm 

yum-builddep rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm 

rpmbuild --rebuild rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm

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Example RHEL6 setup:

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yum install http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm 

yum install http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el6/foreman-release.rpm

yum install foreman foreman-proxy foreman-ovirt foreman-sqlite foreman-ec2 foreman-console foreman-libvirt foreman-vmware 

vi /etc/settings/settings.yaml /etc/settings/database.yml

su - foreman -s /bin/bash -c /usr/share/foreman/extras/dbmigrate

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h2. Getting the RPMS

If you just want to get the rpms:

http://yum.theforeman.org