NetIQ eDirectory on Alma

NetIQ eDirectory is officially supported on RedHat, SuSE, or Windows; but these are all paid operating systems and who doesn’t like a free alternative?

In the past, NetIQ eDirectory would install on CentOS with no configuration changes; but that operating system is End Of Life and is therefore no longer supported.

Using these instructions, you will be able to install NetIQ eDirectory on the free RedHat derivative Alma Linux. Alma Linux is a 100% binary compatible fork of RedHat, and therefore NetIQ eDirectory will run beautifully on it.

We have tested this configuration with Alma Linux 9.4 and NetIQ eDirectory 9.2.9.

redhat-release.spec

Name:           redhat-release-server
Version:        9.4.1911
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        RedHat Release Dummy Package

Group:          Networking/Daemons
License:        No Licence
URL:            http://www.mysite.com

%description
This is an empty dummy package to satisfy a dependency.

%files

%changelog
* Fri Nov 01 2024 Belkast Consulting
- Initial release

Instructions

nano redhat-release.spec
dnf install rpm-build
rpmbuild -bb redhat-release.spec
dnf localinstall ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/redhat-release-server-9.4.1911-1.el9.x86_64.rpm