Chapter 3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages
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Chapter 3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages

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Packages supplied by LINBIT

LINBIT, the DRBD project's sponsor company, provides DRBD binary packages to its commercial support customers. These packages are available at http://www.linbit.com/support/ and are considered "official" DRBD builds.

These builds are available for the following distributions:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), versions 4 and 5

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), versions 9, 10, and 11

  • Debian GNU/Linux, versions 4.0 (etch) and 5.0 (lenny)

  • Ubuntu Server Edition LTS, versions 6.06 (Dapper Drake) and 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

LINBIT releases binary builds in parallel with any new DRBD source release.

Package installation on RPM-based systems (SLES, RHEL) is done by simply invoking rpm -i (for new installations) or rpm -U (for upgrades), along with the corresponding drbd and drbd-km package names.

For Debian-based systems (Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu) systems, drbd8-utils and drbd8-module packages are installed with dpkg -i, or gdebi if available.

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