Install Rudder Agent on RHEL or CentOS

Each package that is published by Rudder Project is signed with our GPG signature. To ensure the packages you will install are official builds and have not been altered, import our key into rpm using the following command:

rpm --import https://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-repos/rudder_rpm_key.pub

Our key fingerprint is:

pub  1024R/6F07D355 2012-11-09 Rudder Project (RPM release key) <security@rudder-project.org>
      Key fingerprint = 1141 A947 CDA0 4E83 82C1  B9C4 ADAB 3BD3 6F07 D355

Then you can download the package applicable to your version of RHEL/CentOS and to its architecture on

http://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_5/
http://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_6/

Or you can define a yum repository for RHEL/CentOS 6:

$ echo "[Rudder_2.11]
name=Rudder 2.11 Repository
baseurl=http://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_6/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_6/repodata/repomd.xml.key
" > /etc/yum.repos.d/rudder.repo

Or for RHEL/CentOS 5:

$ echo "[Rudder_2.11]
name=Rudder 2.11 Repository
baseurl=http://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.rudder-project.org/rpm-2.11/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
" > /etc/yum.repos.d/rudder.repo

Install the package:

rpm -Uhv rudder-agent-2.11.0-1.EL.5.x86_64.rpm

Or if a yum repository has been set:

yum install rudder-agent