Active backup for business and Oracle Linux

[dnessett]

When IBM-owned RedHat decided to discontinue CentOS linux to CentOS Stream, I decide to move to Oracle Linux. According to the documentation. Active Backup for Business does not support Oracle Linux. Since Oracle Linux is a very popular derivative of Fedora, I tried to install the active backup for business agent on it, but received the following error:

Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing Active Backup for Business Agent 100%
* install kernel-devel-5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.2.el8uek.x86_64
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No match for argument: kernel-devel-5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.2.el8uek.x86_64
Error: Unable to find a match: kernel-devel-5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.2.el8uek.x86_64
* install kernel header failed, please try again later or download and install CentOS7 kernel-devel-5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.2.el8uek.x86_64 from https://pkgs.org/download/kernel-devel

When I list the kernel headers for my installation, I find:

5.4.17-2136.307.3.2.el8uek

It appears that my version of the kernel is newer than the one expected by the agent install. Is there a way to tell the agent that, so it will install correctly?

 

[a_company]

Hello, it appears that the kernel-devel package name is different for oracle linux.

You need to extract the install.run ( there is a parameter for that )
after that, you need to check all scripts files and change lines where "kernel-devel" exist to "kernel-uek-devel"

after that, the process installation is going to check if the correct package is installed.

I don't know if it can fail for another reasons, never tried oracle linux

Hope it helps and if someone at synology reads this: hope synology support newers versions of RHEL soon.