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. It’s very straightforward:
- Create a spec file
- Install rpm-build
- Build the spec file
- Install the rpm file
Instructions
nano redhat-release.spec (copy and paste the file contents from the section below)
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
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