Cent OS 5.4

Cent OS 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

I had a nice install package I wrote for CentOS 4.5 to
install pptpconfig (not just that but all the pptp stuff, the
kernel, dkms, etc).  We recently went to some 5.4 machines.
My current package gives all sorts of errors now so I am sure I need
to update it.  I found this web site:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ which has info for Red Hat 7, 8, and 9, 
and for Fedora 1-6.  (When I made my package there was some other page
which I can't find now for 4.5).

I am wondering where info might be similar to that on http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ but which would work for CentOS 5.4
Or will one of those work?  If so, which?



Here is an overview of what I do in 4.5:

   rpm -Uvh  dkms-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm \
          kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm \
          libglade-0.17-14.i386.rpm \
          libxml-1.8.17-6.i386.rpm

   rpm -Uvh    http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm

   yum --enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig


I suppose it does look like it uses fc6 for the pptp-release.
Libglade has a whole lot of dependencies now, and there are a lot
of errors about dkms, etc.

Can anyone help?

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:

> Here is an overview of what I do in 4.5:
>
>   rpm -Uvh  dkms-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm \
>          kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm \
>          libglade-0.17-14.i386.rpm \
>          libxml-1.8.17-6.i386.rpm

RHEL5 now includes MPPE support in the kernel, so you do not need dkms or 
kernel_ppp_mppe.

I'd be surprised if this is not documented somewhere under 
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/.

I don't know why you are installing libglade and libxml, but maybe you 
don't need those either.

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> I don't know why you are installing libglade and libxml, but maybe
> you don't need those either.

My fault.  Before NetworkManager was vogue, I had written pptpconfig,
based on Glade and PHP-GTK.  It is deprecated now.  The NetworkManager
PPTP plugins are adequate, though I've no idea if they are available for
something as old as RHEL 5.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[Charlie Brady]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, James Cameron wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
>> I don't know why you are installing libglade and libxml, but maybe
>> you don't need those either.
>
> My fault.  Before NetworkManager was vogue, I had written pptpconfig,
> based on Glade and PHP-GTK.  It is deprecated now.  The NetworkManager
> PPTP plugins are adequate, though I've no idea if they are available for
> something as old as RHEL 5.

Something as old as RHEL5? It's current "Enterprise Linux". And Red Hat 
just put out Update 5 today...

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html-single/Release_Notes/

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:04:53PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> Something as old as RHEL5? It's current "Enterprise Linux". And Red
> Hat just put out Update 5 today...

Ah, yes.  Fedora Core 6 with shiny bits.  ;-)  At least lots of
backporting of bug fixes, which makes it stable ... without being
necessarily current.

Ubuntu on the other hand has PPTP support nicely done, out of the box.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

Is anyone else having trouble with sourceforge.net 
(poptop, pptpclient)?  When I try to view with browser
or rpm via http it takes a long time and then the connection
gets reset.  wget will work because it keeps trying and trying
till it downloads something (like 10 minutes later) but http
and yum give bad header messages and cannot install.  Works fine
from other 5.4 machines.  I can't figure out what's wrong.  I have
tried several different mtu values.

Re: Cent OS 5.4

[James Cameron]

poptop.sourceforge.net and pptpclient.sourceforge.net open in web
browser fine for me.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/