HP ProLiant Support Pack - Manual (Page 12)

Deploying PSPs 12
Minimum requirements for Linux servers
IMPORTANT: Before deploying software updates on a target system, be sure that a recent
backup of the target system is available in the event the deployment procedure fails.
PSP installation for Linux servers has the following minimum requirements:
• glibc 2.2.4-26 or later
• gawk 3.1.0-3 or later
• sed 3.02-10 or later
• pciutils-2.1.8-25.i386.rpm or later
The following RPMs are also required:
• On Red Hat servers:
o rpm 4.0.4 or later
o rpm-build 4.0.4 or later
o rpm-devel 4.0.4 or later
• On SUSE Linux servers:
o rpm 3.0.6 or later
In addition, components that are compiled from source code (such as NIC drivers) require the presence of
the following build tools:
• gcc-2.96-108.1 or later
• cpp-2.96-108.1 or later
• binutils-2.11.90.0.8 or later
• glibc-devel-2.2.4-26 or later
• kernel-headers-<version> (The version number depends on which kernel is used.)
To install using the GUI option, you also need the following RPMs:
• gtk+ -1.2.10-11 or later
• gtk- engines -0.11-3 or later
Starting with Linux HP ProLiant Support Pack 8.40 and later, and to support many HP value-add software
deliverables included in the Linux PSP, you must install the following platform-specific compatibility
libraries:
• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 x86 servers:
o compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386 or later
o lm_sensors-2.8.7-2.i386 or later
o net-snmp-5.1.2-11.i386 or later
o perl (needed to provide the libperl.so)
o libnl (needed for QLogic and Emulex drivers)