Installing chef client on a Solaris server

To install chef client in a Solaris server we need to install ruby & rubygems packages which in turn have gcc as a dependency.

To install ruby & rubygems from source download the tarball & extract it.

root@solaristest:/tmp# tar xvf ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar

x ruby-1.8.7-p302, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks

x ruby-1.8.7-p302/lib, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks

x ruby-1.8.7-p302/lib/drb.rb, 19 bytes, 1 tape blocks

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cd ruby-1.8.7-p302

Now run ./configure:

root@solaristest:/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p302# ./configure

checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables...

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Now run make:

root@solaristest:/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p302# make

make: Warning: Illegal dependency list for target `.DEFAULT'

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c array.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c bignum.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c class.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c compar.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c dir.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c dln.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c enum.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c enumerator.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c error.c

gcc -g -O2    -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.    -c eval.c

eval.c: In function `rb_eval_string_wrap':

eval.c:1744: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

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Now run make install:

root@solaristest:/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p302# make install

make: Warning: Illegal dependency list for target `.DEFAULT'

./miniruby -I./lib -I.ext/common -I./- -r./ext/purelib.rb  ./instruby.rb --make="make" --dest-dir=""  --extout=".ext"  --mflags=""  --make-flags=""  --data-mode=0644  --prog-mode=0755  --installed-list .installed.list --mantype="man"

installing binary commands

installing command scripts

installing library scripts

installing headers

installing manpages

installing extension objects

installing extension scripts

With this ruby is installed successfully. To check the version type:

root@solaristest:/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p302# ruby --version

ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [sparc-solaris2.10]

To install rubygems package first extract the tarball as follows:

tar xvf rubygems-1.3.7.tar

Now go to the directory in which the files got extracted & run ruby setup.rb:

cd rubygems-1.3.7

ruby setup.rb

RubyGems 1.3.7 installed

=== 1.3.7 / 2010-05-13

NOTE:

http://rubygems.org is now the default source for downloading gems.

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To check the installed version:

root@solaristest:/tmp/rubygems-1.3.7# gem --version

1.3.7

To install chef client download the client package from the chef official website.

Now run the following command to install the package:

root@solaristest:/tmp# pkgadd -d  chef-12.10.24-1.sparc.solaris chef

Processing package instance <chef> from </tmp/chef-12.10.24-1.sparc.solaris>

chef(sparc) 12.10.24-1

Chef Software, Inc. <maintainers@chef.io>

Using </opt> as the package base directory.

## Processing package information.

## Processing system information.

## Verifying disk space requirements.

## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.

## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user

permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <chef> [y,n,?] y

Installing chef as <chef>

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To see the version of chef installed type:

root@solaristest:/tmp# pkginfo -l chef

   PKGINST:  chef

      NAME:  chef

  CATEGORY:  application

      ARCH:  sparc

   VERSION:  12.10.24-1

   BASEDIR:  /opt

    VENDOR:  Chef Software, Inc. <maintainers@chef.io>

      DESC:  The full stack of chef

    PSTAMP:  chef-solaris-10-sun4v-builder-a6fb8f.chef.co2016-04-27T18:37:34Z

  INSTDATE:  May 25 2016 09:41

     EMAIL:  Chef Software, Inc. <maintainers@chef.io>

    STATUS:  completely installed

     FILES:    13848 installed pathnames

                2005 directories

                 417 executables

              249756 blocks used (approx)

While working on this I encountered the following errors:

ERROR 1:

bash-3.2# ./configure

checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking for gcc... no

checking for cc... no

checking for cl.exe... no

configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p302':

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

See `config.log' for more details.

ERROR 2:

bash-3.2# make

bash: make: command not found

ERROR 3:

bash-3.2# ruby setup.rb

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.10/thread.so: ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.10/thread.so (LoadError)

        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:5

        from ./lib/rubygems.rb:11:in `require'

        from ./lib/rubygems.rb:11

        from setup.rb:24:in `require'

        from setup.rb:24

The fix for the above errors is rather simple.

Just define the following variables in /etc/profile file:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

These contain paths for required entities like gcc & make which cause the above mentioned errors.