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Chapter 2 Installing vCLI
Acompleteinstallationprocesshasthefollowingresult:
Asuccessmessageappears.
Theinstallerlistsdifferentversionnumbersforrequiredmodules(ifany).
Thepromptreturnstotheshellprompt.
Ifyouacceptedthedefaultsduringinstallation,youcanfindtheinstalledsoftwareinthefollowinglocations:
vCLIscripts–/usr/bin
vSphereSDKforPerlutilityapplications–/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps
vSphereSDKforPerlsamplescripts–/usr/share/doc/vmware-vcli/samples
SeethevSphereSDKforPerldocumentationforareferencetoallutilityapplications.
AfteryouinstallthevCLI,youcantesttheinstallationbyrunningacommandfromthecommandprompt.See
“RunningCommandsonLinux”onpage 19.
Installing vCLI on Linux Systems with Internet Access
BeforeyoucaninstallthevCLIpackageonaLinuxsystemwithInternetaccess,thatsystemmustmeet
followingprerequisites.
Internetaccess.YoumusthaveInternetaccesswhenyouruntheinstallerbecausetheinstallerusesCPAN
toinstallprerequisitePerlmodules.
DevelopmentToolsandLibraries.YoumustinstalltheDevelopmentToolsandLibrariesfortheLinux
platformthatyouareworkingwithbeforeyouinstallvCLIandprerequisitePerlmodules.
Proxysettings.IfyoursystemisusingaproxyforInternetaccess,youmustsetthehttp://andftp://
proxies,asfollows:
export http_proxy=<proxy_server>:port
export ftp_proxy=<proxy_server>:port
Installing Required Prerequisite Software for Linux Systems with Internet
Access
Ifrequiredprerequisitesoftwareisnotinstalled,theinstallerstopsandrequeststhatyouinstallit.Installation
ofprerequisitesoftwaredependsontheplatformthatyouareusing.
Table 2-1. Installing Required Prerequisite Software
Platform Installation
RHEL5.5,32‐bit
RHEL5.5,64‐bit
Installprerequisitesusingyum,theRHELpackageinstaller(recommended),orfromthe
installationDVD.Forexample:
yum install openssl-devel libxml2-dev e2fsprogs-dev
SLES10,32bit
SLES10,64bit
InstalltheprerequisitepackagesfromtheSLES10andSLES11SDKDVD.Whenyouinsertthe
DVD,it
offerstoautorun.Canceltheautorundialogboxandusetheyastpackageinstallerto
installOpenSSLorothermissingrequiredpackages.
SLES10,64bit.yast -i openssl-devel libxml2-devel-32bit
e2fsprogs-devel-32bit
SLES10,32bit.yast -i openssl-devel libxml2-devel e2fsprogs-devel
SomeusersmightbeauthorizedtousetheNovellCustomerCenteranduseyasttoretrieve
missingpackagesfromthere.
NotethatSLES10includeslibxml2version2.6.23.ThevCLIclientrequire2.6.26orhigher.
Upgradeto2.6.26orhigher.
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