Saturday, April 6, 2013

Using DELL SUU 7.2 on Centos 6.4

After readming through a couple of posts and blogs on how to use SUU on CentOS the following worked for me.

Please note that if you do not have the right rpm's installed the update process will delete your /tmp directory, so try this on a non production server first.

 Install the relevant rpms:

yum -y install glibc.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib.i686 libxml2.i686 libXp.i686 libXtst.i686 ncurses-libs pam.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 compat-libstdc++-296

Mount the ISO image or dvd and run the following from the mountpoint

 ./suu -c (check if there are any updates)
./suu -u (update)

 you can do a tail -f /var/log/dell/suu/* to see what is happening.