installing packages using shell

[nicc9]

hello, all.

i'm new to plesk.

my hosting company gave me plesk 8.1.1 plus the opportunity to have shell access.

there is no way for me to install packages through plesk (well some useless ones i can install), so I was thinking that i have to do it from the shell.

now, is there a way, like installing the packages in some plesk installation folder, to install packages from the command line and have plesk see that they were installed, making them available under the 'components' session in the control panel?

i installed yum on my machine, but it's not listed under the installed components list.

i need to have php5 installed on the server, and other stuff like ruby.

any help apprecciated!

thanks!

 

[atomicturtle]

Ouch, it didnt come with yum? What distro are you on?

 

[nicc9]

centOS 4.3

 

[atomicturtle]

VPS huh? The atomic installer on my site should fix that for you.

 

[nicc9]

Originally posted by atomicturtle
VPS huh? The atomic installer on my site should fix that for you.

fix what?

 

[atomicturtle]

That yum wasnt on the box. That breaks your ability to update the box (you should be at CentOS 4.5), and is likely the source of your problems right now. You'd be able to pull php5, and mysql 5 from the centosplus channels.

 

[nicc9]

right.

well, i did installed yum.

and i could install whatever package I want from the shell.

however, whatever i installed on the machine, is not monitored by plesk.

i really like plesk to create clients and assign domain names/ email accounts, so i'd like to manage the server though Plesk.

now, what i really need to know is:

is there a way to install from shell and somehow, 'let plesk know' the packages where installed, so that they show up under 'components info'?

how does plesk keep track of installed software?

my idea is that if i could install into a plesk directory and it was like i installed through plesk, my probs would be solved.

or, can i just manage the machine software and have plesk manage ONLY the clients/ domain names/ email accounts stuff?

any idea?

i know, i'm a newbie, but i appreciate your help!

thanks!

 

[atomicturtle]

It does have awareness of some RPM packages installed on the system. The big things, like mysql, bind, httpd, etc. What exactly are you trying to get plesk to recognize?

 

[nicc9]

Originally posted by atomicturtle
It does have awareness of some RPM packages installed on the system. The big things, like mysql, bind, httpd, etc. What exactly are you trying to get plesk to recognize?

I need the latest versions of PHP and mysql...

that's pretty much it.

now, what i don't understand is what plesk does, meaning that i'd like to fi9nd some tutorials about plesk and its installation folders etc.

when it installs a package, does it put everything in a plesk-specific folder or it installs it where it would normally be installed?

what i see from plesk is the whole system or the stuff inside a pleask folder?

thanks!

 

[atomicturtle]

Plesk uses whatever the vendor ships with the system, packages like httpd, mysql, php, etc come from the vendor so they go in the usual locations. 3rd party yum archives don't normally violate that rule either (I certainly dont).

 

[nicc9]

yeah, i was able to install PHP5 and mysql 5 (I believe) and Plesk was perfectly fine with that, it recognized the packages and all.

it's just my hosgin company that scared me, as they where all about (well, you're supposed to just use plesk, we don't support installing custom packages, it will lead to unexpected results and bullshit like that).

so, thanks for your help!