Cloudera Manager installation issue in RHEL 5.7

[#1]

Hi,

We are trying to install CDH 4.4 on RHEL 5.7. But the installation was aborted because of Postgres DB installation issues. 

Logs from /var/log/cloudera-manager-installer/4.install-cloudera-manager-server-db.log

Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cloudera-manager-server-db.x86_64 0:4.7.3-1.cm473.p0.163.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql-server >= 8.0 for package: cloudera-manager-server-db
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
cloudera-manager-server-db-4.7.3-1.cm473.p0.163.el5.x86_64 from cloudera-manager has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: postgresql-server >= 8.0 is needed by package cloudera-manager-server-db-4.7.3-1.cm473.p0.163.el5.x86_64 (cloudera-manager)
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql-server >= 8.0 is needed by package cloudera-manager-server-db-4.7.3-1.cm473.p0.163.el5.x86_64 (cloudera-manager)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.

Please let me know how to proceed furthur.

Thanks in advance,

Naresh

[#2]

As per the Installation Requirements of CM 4.7.3, PostGres 8.1 or higher is required.  You are on an older version of RHEL and therefore do not have a new enough version of PostGres.  You can try the following command and see if you can get postgres upgraded to an acceptable version:

yum update postgresql-server

[#3]

We dont have PostgresSQL installed already in the VM. We are following Path A type automated installation mentioned here .

Between yum update for postgresql-server is failed as there is no package available with the name postgresql-server

As per the Cloudera documentation we dont need to install any dependencies if we follow Path A right. 

[#4]

Ah, ok.  You are correct that you are not supposed to have to pre-install postgresql for Path A.  It's possible that there the latest version of CM has dependencies that are incompatible with RHEL 5.7, even though the document I linked claims support for RHEL 5.7.

I will investigate and get back to you.

[#5 · Accepted solution]

OK, apparently this is a misconfiguration in your yum repos.  I'm not sure what error you are getting when trying to install postgresql-server, but our installer will use yum to do that and is apparently not able to contact the RHEL repos.