New installation on Red Hat Linux¶

This section describes how to install OpenGeo Suite on Red Hat-based Linux distributions. The following distributions are supported:

Fedora 18 and 19
CentOS 5 and 6
RHEL 5 and 6

Note

QGIS, while part of OpenGeo Suite, is not currently bundled as a package by Boundless. To use QGIS with a Red Hat system, please see the QGIS community installation instructions.

System requirements¶

OpenGeo Suite for Red Hat has the following system requirements:

Memory: 512MB minimum (1GB recommended)
Disk space: 750MB minimum (plus extra space for any loaded data)
Browser: Any modern web browser is supported
Permissions: Super user privileges are required for installation

Installation¶

This installation will add the OpenGeo Suite package repository and then install the appropriate packages. See the Packages section for details about the possible packages to install.

Warning

Mixing repositories is not recommended. If you already have a repository that contains some of the components of OpenGeo Suite (such as PostgreSQL) please remove them before installing OpenGeo Suite.

The commands in this section require root privileges.

Change to the root user:
```
sudo su -
```
Add the OpenGeo repository by creating the file /etc/yum.repos.d/OpenGeo.repo with the following contents:
```
[opengeo]
name=opengeo
baseurl=http://yum.opengeo.org/suite/v4/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
```
Replace <OS> with one of “fedora”, “centos”, or “rhel” based on the distribution.
Search for OpenGeo packages:
```
yum search opengeo
```
If the search command does not return any results, the repository was not added properly. Examine the output of the search command for any errors.
Install:
```
yum install opengeo
```
Note

The above will install all OpenGeo Suite packages. See the Packages section for details of individual packages.

After installation¶

Installation is now complete. Please see the section on Working with OpenGeo Suite for Red Hat Linux.