Category Archives: CentOS

Fast track: Installing Ansible 2.1 stable on Oracle Linux 6.7

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Roy

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

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Roy

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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