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Installing Gluster

For RPM based distributions, if you will be using InfiniBand, add the glusterfs RDMA package to the installations. For RPM based systems, yum is used as the install method in order to satisfy external depencies such as compat-readline5

For Debian

Download the packages

wget -nd -nc -r -A.deb http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/wheezy/

(Note from reader: The above does not work. Check for 3.5 version or use http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/glusterfs-server

Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)

dpkg -i glusterfs_3.5.2-4_amd64.deb

For Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10 and 12: install python-software-properties:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Ubuntu 14: install software-properties-common:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Then add the community GlusterFS PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gluster/glusterfs-3.5    sudo apt-get update

Finally, install the packages:

sudo apt-get install glusterfs-server

Note: Packages exist for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.10, and 14.04 LTS

For Red Hat/CentOS

Download the packages (modify URL for your specific release and architecture).

wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/RHEL/glusterfs-epel.repo

Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)

yum install glusterfs-server

For Fedora

Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)

yum install glusterfs-server

Once you are finished installing, you can move on to section.