Fresh Build of CentOS 5.4 won't allow Plesk Install

[SacAutos]

I've got a fresh server with a clean install of CentOS 5.4 . Racked it and ran YUM update. Then I downloaded the latest release of plesk 9.3 and attempted to install. Doesn't work. I've tried various combinations of options and none works. Here's the log. What do I do??

Please select the components of Parallels Plesk Panel you want to install:

1. * Base packages of Plesk
2. [*] Plesk Updater
3. [*] PHP5 support
4. [*] PostgreSQL server support
5. [ ] Application vault packages
6. [ ] Plesk Professional Web Site Editor
7. [*] Plesk API [former Plesk Agent]
8. [*] Plesk migration manager
9. [ ] SiteBuilder publishing support for Plesk
10. [ ] SiteBuilder module migration suite
11. [ ] ColdFusion support for Plesk
12. [ ] MIVA Empresa support
13. [ ] Plesk billing
14. [.] <+> Plesk hosting features // 1 of 5 components selected

Different mailservers
15. (*) Qmail mailserver
16. ( ) Postfix mailserver

17. [ ] <+> Additional Plesk modules // 0 of 5 components selected
18. [ ] <+> Game servers // 0 of 3 components selected
19. [.] <+> Addition mail services // 2 of 4 components selected
20. [.] <+> Server backup solutions // 1 of 2 components selected
21. [ ] <+> Additional language packs // 0 of 9 components selected
22. [ ] <+> Plesk webmails support // 0 of 2 components selected

N) Next page; P) Go back; Q) Cancel installing;
A) Select all; D) Deselect all;
Enter number to toggle the component or to overview the group;
Type a number or a character of desired action [N]:
Retrieving information about the installed packages...
Downloading the file PSA_9.3.0/dist-rpm-CentOS-5-i386/build-9.3.0-cos5-i386.hdr.gz: 10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% done.
Downloading the file PSA_9.3.0/update-rpm-CentOS-5-i386/update-9.3.0-cos5-i386.hdr.gz: 10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% done.
Downloading the file PSA_9.3.0/thirdparty-rpm-CentOS-5-i386/thirdparty-9.3.0-cos5-i386.hdr.gz: 11%..20%..31%..40%..52%..61%..70%..82%..91%..100% done.
Determining the packages that need to be installed.
ERROR: Unable to install the "plesk-base-9.3.0-cos5.build93091230.07.i586" package.
Not all packages were installed.
Please, contact product technical support.
[root@host ~]#

 

[IgorG]

You shouldn't run yum update after CentOS and before Plesk installation. Run it after Plesk installation if you want to update your system.

 

[atomicturtle]

You can also install plesk with yum using:

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/plesk |sh

yum install psa

This should get around the dependency error in the autoinstaller

 

[SacAutos]

Brilliant - that actually worked. Of course I got excited and installed everything. Now I'd like to dump the unnecessary **** like the battlefield game servers. Is there an easy way to make those go away?

 

[mmule]

I have had plenty of days lost with CentOS 5.4 and Plesk 9.3 installations.

When the installer fails you need to make sure you remove the entries from /tmp and delete the 'parallels' folder from /root.

Check out the gs module guide on page 19 (http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.3-unix-cs-gs-module-guide.pdf) it has instructions on how to uninstall the game servers.

hope it helps.

 

[atomicturtle]

Got a shortcut for you, just run:

yum remove <packagename>

so for example to remove the counterstrike game server:

yum remove cs-gs

 

[HostaHost]

For those of us who don't like the idea of connecting an unpatched server to the internet, is there a list of of packages the broken 9.3 installer barfs on so we can back-rev just those specific rpm's to get it installed and then roll forward?