Rocky Linux Support

swjpilot

February 2, 2022 at 10:22 am UTC

#community#linux

With the move of CentOS8 to stream Rocky Linux has come out to replace it as the go to RHEL Clone. When can we expect to see Rocky Linux as a supported OS? Currently it detects Rocky Linux as SUSE which is weird as I would think it should detect it as CentOS or RHEL.

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AnonymousFebruary 3, 2022

Hey, Scott - I haven’t heard anything specific, but I can do some digging & ask around to see if it’s on the roadmap.

AnonymousFebruary 10, 2022

Hi, Scott - I talked to one of our Sr. Tech. PM’s last week, and he’s running it by some engineers. I’ll let you know what I find out!

philips66January 24, 2023

Bump, still unable to install for Rocky Linux 8, here is the error:

Installing package...
bash: line 297: zypper: command not found

Any update of Rocky Linux support for Automox?

DaimosFebruary 3, 2023

Bump, still unable to install for Rocky Linux 8, here is the error:

Installing package...
bash: line 297: zypper: command not found

Any update of Rocky Linux support for Automox?

I successfully installed manually

bash76 lines

[root@rocky8_5 ~]# wget https://console.automox.com/installers/amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm
--2023-02-03 09:54:07--  https://console.automox.com/installers/amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm
Resolving console.automox.com (console.automox.com)... 54.191.17.161, 52.38.223.226, 54.187.163.42
Connecting to console.automox.com (console.automox.com)|54.191.17.161|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm’

amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd     [   <=>                                                   ]   2.80M  5.95MB/s    in 0.5s    

2023-02-03 09:54:08 (5.95 MB/s) - ‘amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm’ saved [2938656]

[root@rocky8_5 ~]# rmp -Uvh amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm 
-bash: rmp: command not found
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# rpm -Uvh amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
	yum-utils is needed by amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# dnf install yum
Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:07 ago on Fri 03 Feb 2023 09:40:07 AM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================================================================================
 Package                    Architecture                  Version                             Repository                     Size
==================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 yum                        noarch                        4.7.0-11.el8                        baseos                        205 k

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 205 k
Installed size: 75 k
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# dnf install yum-utils
Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:15 ago on Fri 03 Feb 2023 09:40:07 AM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================================================================================
 Package                       Architecture               Version                                Repository                  Size
==================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 yum-utils                     noarch                     4.0.21-14.1.el8                        baseos                      73 k

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 73 k
Installed size: 23 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
yum-utils-4.0.21-14.1.el8.noarch.rpm                                                              1.8 MB/s |  73 kB     00:00    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                             1.7 MB/s |  73 kB     00:00     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                                          1/1 
  Installing       : yum-utils-4.0.21-14.1.el8.noarch                                                                         1/1 
  Running scriptlet: yum-utils-4.0.21-14.1.el8.noarch                                                                         1/1 
  Verifying        : yum-utils-4.0.21-14.1.el8.noarch                                                                         1/1 

Installed:
  yum-utils-4.0.21-14.1.el8.noarch                                                                                                

Complete!
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# rpm -Uvh amagent-1.42.13-1.x86_64.systemd.rpm 
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:amagent-1.42.13-1                ################################# [100%]
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# sudo /opt/amagent/amagent --setkey xxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx
[root@rocky8_5 ~]# sudo service amagent start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start amagent.service

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