Mailing List Archive: Server requirements for installing Varnish

Server requirements for installing Varnish

myles at magicalwonders

Mar 16, 2017, 5:05 AM

Post #1 of 8 (661 views)

Hello Guys,

I'm searching for some step by step instructions for the installation of
Varnish, but I'm finding so many variations, it's making my head spin!

I have a VPS running CENTOS 6.8 x86_64 virtuozzo. I found this resource
which looks fairly straightforward as I do have cPanel/WHM -
https://support.qualityunit.com/496090-How-to-install-Varnish-with-CPanel-and-CentOS-to-cache-static-content-on-server

I know I would need to change the "rpm -Uvh
http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el5/noarch/varnish-release-3.0-1.noarch.rpm"
to get the latest version, but not sure what the correct syntax for that
would be?

However, I've now seen this reference -
https://www.saotn.org/install-varnish-cache-on-centos-6-7/ which says
that Varnish relies on Jemalloc and says it should be installed! What
the heck is Jemalloc? I can't see it mentioned anywhere else online in
regards to installing Varnish. I found a mention of it in the Wiki
though -
https://www.varnish-software.com/wiki/search.html?q=Jemalloc&check_keywords=yes&area=default

Looking at the FAQ in Wiki I can see that the following packages are
also required in order for Varnish to work -

autoconf
automake
jemalloc-devel
libedit-devel
libtool
ncurses-devel
pcre-devel
pkgconfig
python-docutils
python-sphinx
graphviz

Navigation on a server is not my strong point. Are the packages likely to be referenced in one location? In other words, how do I find out if I've already got them?

Hope someone can advise.

Myles

Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

ciapnz at gmail

Mar 16, 2017, 5:29 AM

Post #2 of 8 (661 views)

Those are for building / compiling Varnish on your server. If you’re installing Varnish from its official repository, you don’t need any extras.
> autoconf
> automake
> jemalloc-devel
> libedit-devel
> libtool
> ncurses-devel
> pcre-devel
> pkgconfig
> python-docutils
> python-sphinx
> graphviz

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Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

guillaume at varnish-software

Mar 16, 2017, 5:37 AM

Post #3 of 8 (661 views)

Doesn't "yum install varnish" just work? The package manager should pull
all the required packages for you.

--
Guillaume Quintard

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Magical Wonders <myles@magicalwonders.com>
wrote:

> Hello Guys,
>
> I'm searching for some step by step instructions for the installation of
> Varnish, but I'm finding so many variations, it's making my head spin!
>
> I have a VPS running CENTOS 6.8 x86_64 virtuozzo. I found this resource
> which looks fairly straightforward as I do have cPanel/WHM -
> https://support.qualityunit.com/496090-How-to-install-
> Varnish-with-CPanel-and-CentOS-to-cache-static-content-on-server
>
> I know I would need to change the "rpm -Uvh http://repo.varnish-cache.org/
> redhat/varnish-3.0/el5/noarch/varnish-release-3.0-1.noarch.rpm" to get
> the latest version, but not sure what the correct syntax for that would be?
>
> However, I've now seen this reference - https://www.saotn.org/install-
> varnish-cache-on-centos-6-7/ which says that Varnish relies on Jemalloc
> and says it should be installed! What the heck is Jemalloc? I can't see it
> mentioned anywhere else online in regards to installing Varnish. I found a
> mention of it in the Wiki though - https://www.varnish-software.
> com/wiki/search.html?q=Jemalloc&check_keywords=yes&area=default
>
> Looking at the FAQ in Wiki I can see that the following packages are also
> required in order for Varnish to work -
>
> autoconf
> automake
> jemalloc-devel
> libedit-devel
> libtool
> ncurses-devel
> pcre-devel
> pkgconfig
> python-docutils
> python-sphinx
> graphviz
>
> Navigation on a server is not my strong point. Are the packages likely to be referenced in one location? In other words, how do I find out if I've already got them?
>
> Hope someone can advise.
>
> Myles
>
>
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>

Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

Mar 16, 2017, 6:02 AM

Post #4 of 8 (661 views)

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Guillaume Quintard
<guillaume@varnish-software.com> wrote:
> Doesn't "yum install varnish" just work? The package manager should pull all
> the required packages for you.

Yes, only after you set up the repo, the rpm command does that but
starting with 5.1 that won't be the case. I'd wait a bit until 5.1 is
officially announced to get the new repos details.

Dridi

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Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

myles at magicalwonders

Mar 16, 2017, 6:33 AM

Post #5 of 8 (661 views)

Ok, I think I understand. So installing 5.1 when the new details are
available, all the required packages will automatically be installed?

Is this the page that will give the new details? -
https://varnish-cache.org/releases/install_redhat.html#install-redhat

Myles

On 16/03/2017 13:02, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Guillaume Quintard
> <guillaume@varnish-software.com> wrote:
>> Doesn't "yum install varnish" just work? The package manager should pull all
>> the required packages for you.
> Yes, only after you set up the repo, the rpm command does that but
> starting with 5.1 that won't be the case. I'd wait a bit until 5.1 is
> officially announced to get the new repos details.
>
> Dridi
>

Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

Mar 16, 2017, 6:47 AM

Post #6 of 8 (661 views)

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Magical Wonders
<myles@magicalwonders.com> wrote:
> Ok, I think I understand. So installing 5.1 when the new details are
> available, all the required packages will automatically be installed?
>
> Is this the page that will give the new details? -
> https://varnish-cache.org/releases/install_redhat.html#install-redhat

Yes, it is. You can also register to the varnish-announce mailing list
to know as soon as it's available, it's very low traffic.

Cheers

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Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

myles at magicalwonders

Mar 16, 2017, 7:05 AM

Post #7 of 8 (661 views)

Great, thank you. I've signed up to the varnish-announce mailing list
now. :-)

Best wishes,

Myles

On 16/03/2017 13:47, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Magical Wonders
> <myles@magicalwonders.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I think I understand. So installing 5.1 when the new details are
>> available, all the required packages will automatically be installed?
>>
>> Is this the page that will give the new details? -
>> https://varnish-cache.org/releases/install_redhat.html#install-redhat
> Yes, it is. You can also register to the varnish-announce mailing list
> to know as soon as it's available, it's very low traffic.
>
> Cheers
>

Re: Server requirements for installing Varnish [ In reply to ]

maillist-varnish at iamafreeman

Mar 16, 2017, 8:34 AM

Post #8 of 8 (660 views)

Hello

And if you want to use another rpm then

yum localinstall rpmfile_or_url

On 16 Mar 2017 14:07, "Magical Wonders" <myles@magicalwonders.com> wrote:

> Great, thank you. I've signed up to the varnish-announce mailing list now.
> :-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Myles
>
> On 16/03/2017 13:47, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Magical Wonders<myles@magicalwonders.com> <myles@magicalwonders.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I think I understand. So installing 5.1 when the new details are
> available, all the required packages will automatically be installed?
>
> Is this the page that will give the new details? -https://varnish-cache.org/releases/install_redhat.html#install-redhat
>
>
> Yes, it is. You can also register to the varnish-announce mailing list
> to know as soon as it's available, it's very low traffic.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
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