Category Archives: Enterprise Linux

Fast track: Installing Ansible 2.1 stable on Oracle Linux 6.7

Ansible can certainly be installed using prebuilt packages from the EPEL repository, but while convenient, their offering is limited to Ansible 1.9.x – that is to say only versions prior to the major 2.0 release that includes a number of … Continue reading

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Fast Track: ElasticSearch on CentOS 6.x on DigitalOcean VPS

yum install wget cd /opt wget –no-cookies –no-check-certificate –header “Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie” “http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u67-b01/jdk-7u67-linux-x64.tar.gz” tar xzf jdk-7u67-linux-x64.tar.gz cd jdk1.7.0_67/ alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/java 2 alternatives –config java alternatives –install /usr/bin/jar jar /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/jar 2 alternatives –install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.7.0_67/bin/javac 2 alternatives –set … Continue reading

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