Chapter 3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages

Chapter 3. Installing pre-built DRBD binary packages
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3.2. Packages supplied by distribution vendors

3.2.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3.2.2. Debian GNU/Linux
3.2.3. CentOS
3.2.4. Ubuntu Linux

3.1. 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 and 5 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), versions 10, and 11
Debian GNU/Linux, versions 5.0 (lenny) and 6.0 (squeeze)
Ubuntu Server Edition LTS, versions and 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

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 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.