How to do offline install of cloud-init onto IBM i
The document is only to introduce how to install cloud-init rpm packages offline.
Setup rpm running environment
• Download bootstrap.sh and bootstrap.tar.Z to your PC • Transfer these two files to the /tmp directory on your IBM i system (via FTP, mapped network drive, scp, sftp etc). Make sure to transfer them in binary. • From a 5250 terminal run the following.
QSH CMD('touch -C 819 /tmp/bootstrap.log; /QOpenSys/usr/bin/ksh /tmp/bootstrap.sh > /tmp/bootstrap.log 2>&1')
• If you see message QSH005: “Command ended normally with exit status 0” in the job log you’re all good. If not, consult /tmp/bootstrap.log.
Install cloud-init packages
• Refer to https://supportcontent.ibm.com/support/pages/cloud-init-support-ibm-i find the required rpm packages of cloud-init, for example
- python2-ibm_db-2.0.5.8
- python2-six-1.10.0-1
- python2-2.7.15-1
- cloud-init-1.2-0
• Check which packages are not installed. For example run “/Qopensys/pkgs/bin/rpm -qa|grep python2-ibm_db”. If the output is none, that means the package is not installed. The output in below snapshot means python2 has been installed. But python2-ibm_db, python2-six, cloud-init are not installed.
• Download missing rpm packages from https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/repo/ to your PC. (Note, different rpm packages may be in different sub-directories, for example, python2-ibm_db and cloud-init locate at ppc64, python2-six locates at noarch), then transfer them to your IBM i.
• Install rpm packages
> ls /tmp/*.rpm
/tmp/cloud-init-1.2-100.ibmi7.2.ppc64.rpm
/tmp/python2-ibm_db-2.0.5.12-0.ibmi7.2.ppc64.rpm
/tmp/python2-six-1.10.0-2.ibmi7.2.noarch.rpm
> /qopensys/pkgs/bin/rpm -i /tmp/*.rpm
> /Qopensys/pkgs/bin/rpm -qa|grep cloud-init
cloud-init-1.2-100.ppc64
> /Qopensys/pkgs/bin/rpm -qa|grep python2-six
python2-six-1.10.0-2.noarch
> /Qopensys/pkgs/bin/rpm -qa|grep python2-ibm_db
python2-ibm_db-2.0.5.12-0.ppc64
