Installing

This section describes how to perform an installation of OpenGeo Suite 4.8 on Red hat-based Linux distributions. These instructions should be followed if your system does not have OpenGeo Suite installed.

Note

Warning

While QGIS often paired with the rest of OpenGeo Suite, it is not currently bundled as a package by Boundless. We do not recommend running QGIS on the same machine as OpenGeo Suite, as package conflicts will occur. Instead, you can use QGIS on a different machine and connect to OpenGeo Suite services from there.

System requirements

The following distributions are supported:

  • CentOS 6 (64-bit)
  • RHEL 6 (64-bit)

OpenGeo Suite for Red Hat has the following system requirements:

  • Memory: 512MB minimum (1GB recommended)
  • Disk space: 750MB minimum (plus extra space for any loaded data)
  • Browser: Any modern web browser is supported
  • Permissions: Super user privileges are required for installation

Pre-installation process

This installation will add the OpenGeo Suite package repository and then install the appropriate packages. See the Packages section for details about the possible packages to install.

Warning

Mixing repositories is not recommended. If you already have a community (non-Boundless) repository that contains some of the components of OpenGeo Suite (such as PostgreSQL) please remove them before installing OpenGeo Suite.

The commands in this section require root privileges.

  1. Change to the root user:

    sudo su -
    
  2. Download the Boundless and Fedora GPG keys:

    wget https://yum.boundlessgeo.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-OpenGeo_Suite
    wget https://getfedora.org/static/0608B895.txt
    
  3. Verify the fingerprint of each certificate:

    gpg --quiet --with-fingerprint ./RPM-GPG-KEY-OpenGeo_Suite
    
    pub  2048R/E2DD3C77 2015-06-05 OpenGeo Suite <contact@boundlessgeo.com>
          Key fingerprint = DEF2 E3C7 75C7 5037 97F5  9111 6E26 79DC E2DD 3C77
    sub  2048R/D8FEF4BF 2015-06-05
    
    gpg --quiet --with-fingerprint ./0608B895.txt
    
    pub  4096R/0608B895 2010-04-23 EPEL (6) <epel@fedoraproject.org>
          Key fingerprint = 8C3B E96A F230 9184 DA5C  0DAE 3B49 DF2A 0608 B895
    
  4. Import the Boundless and Fedora GPG keys:

    rpm --import ./RPM-GPG-KEY-OpenGeo_Suite
    rpm --import ./0608B895.txt
    
  5. Add the OpenGeo Suite repository by creating the file /etc/yum.repos.d/OpenGeo.repo and adding the following contents:

    • For OpenGeo Suite:

      [opengeo]
      name=opengeo
      baseurl=https://yum.boundlessgeo.com/suite/latest/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch
      enabled=1
      gpgcheck=1
      gpgkey=https://yum.boundlessgeo.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-OpenGeo_Suite,https://getfedora.org/static/0608B895.txt
      

      Make sure to replace <OS> with either centos or rhel based on your distribution.

    • For OpenGeo Suite Enterprise:

      [opengeo]
      name=opengeo
      baseurl=https://<username>:<password>@yum-ee.boundlessgeo.com/suite/latest/<OS>/$releasever/$basearch
      enabled=1
      gpgcheck=1
      gpgkey=https://<username>:<password>@yum-ee.boundlessgeo.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-OpenGeo_Suite,https://getfedora.org/static/0608B895.txt
      

      Make sure to replace each instance of <username> and <password> with the user name and password supplied to you after your purchase. Also, replace <OS> with either centos or rhel based on your distribution.

      Note

      If you have OpenGeo Suite Enterprise and do not have a user name and password, please contact us.

Installation process

  1. Search for OpenGeo Suite packages to verify that the repository list is correct. If the command does not return any results, examine the output of the yum command for any errors or warnings.

    yum search opengeo
    
  2. You have options on what packages to install:

    Note

    See the Packages section for details of individual packages.

    • To install typical server components:

      yum install opengeo-server
      
    • To install typical client components:

      yum install opengeo-client
      
    • To install typical client and server components:

      yum install opengeo
      
  3. Restart the Suite

    service tomcat restart
    

After installation

Installation is now complete. Please see the section on After installation: Working with OpenGeo Suite for Red Hat Linux to continue.