Does this work only on Debian?

[smj4490]

I'd like to use this on a work project but all of the work boxes run CentOS, would this work on CentOS or would I have to tweak the code for it to play nice with CentOS? This repo looks to be built specifically for a Debian environment unless I'm mistaken.

[ehammond]

The program itself should be distro independent as long as you install the appropriate dependencies.

If you find there are changes needed, please submit a merge request, making sure it still runs on Ubuntu.

[dansmith65]

I have this installed on Amazon Linux, which is similar to CentOS. I went through every item in the "Depends:" line here: https://github.com/alestic/ec2-expire-snapshots/blob/master/debian/control and found the package via yum list. For example, to find the yum equivalent of libfile-slurp-perl, you can run something like this: yum list *perl*slurp*

I used the following command to install dependencies for ec2-consistent-snapshot a year ago:

yum --enablerepo=epel install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2 perl-File-Slurp perl-DBI perl-DBD-MySQL perl-Net-SSLeay perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Time-HiRes perl-Params-Validate ca-certificates

[ehammond]

dansmith65: Nice, thanks! Would you like to create and maintain the rpm? :-)

[dansmith65]

It would be great to have an rpm for this and related projects; but I don't think I'm up to the task. I have never done it before, but just read about it here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package. It seems a little too involved for me.
If I ever want a side project to hack away on, I'll keep this in mind.

[FernandoMiguel]

Hi.
Even with the dependencies that @dansmith65 mentioned, I get an error:
Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @inc (@inc contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at ./ec2-expire-snapshots line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ec2-expire-snapshots line 10.

i had to install perl-DateTime-Format-ISO8601 perl-DateTime perl-Date-Manip

[gblazex]

Here is how I got it working on CentOS 7

sudo yum install -y wget git perl perl-CPAN 

# Grab everything that's available from EPEL 7
# see packages here: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/letter_p.group.html
sudo yum install --enablerepo=epel -y perl-Date-Manip perl-DateTime perl-DateTime-TimeZone perl-DateTime-Format-ISO8601
sudo yum install --enablerepo=epel -y perl-File-Slurp perl-Net-SSLeay perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Time-HiRes perl-Params-Validate ca-certificates  perl-Net-Amazon-EC2 

# Net::Amazon::EC2 is the only one not available on EPEL 7, so we grab it from CPAN
# needs: Net::Amazon::EC2 -> XML::Simple -> XML::Parser -> XML::SAX::Expat -> expat-devel
sudo yum install -y expat-devel
sudo cpan App::cpanminus  # a better package manager for CPAN
sudo /usr/local/bin/cpanm Net::Amazon::EC2

Finally try ec2-expire-snapshots out (shouldn't complain about missing libraries):

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/alestic/ec2-expire-snapshots.git ec2-expire-snapshots
ec2-expire-snapshots/ec2-expire-snapshots --noaction

[gblazex]

Added wiki page:
https://github.com/alestic/ec2-expire-snapshots/wiki/Installing-on-CentOS-or-RHEL-(yum)

Also PR to mention installing on other distros in the README
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