Community maintained: CentOS 7 Support

Can we get some CentOS support with the installer? I’m not a python dev so I can’t write code but I managed to remove the parts that were Ubuntu specific.

Basically the Ubuntu detection could check for Cent OS and run yum commands instead of apt-get

This was my very rough guide/edits

yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y python3 python3-devel git curl python3-virtualenv python3-pip
yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
yum install -y libcurl libcurl-devel openssl-libs openssl-devel

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
yum install -y nodejs

Edit bootstrap.py - Remove apt and ubuntu checks and check for systemd, change pip to pip3
Edit /opt/tljh/hub/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/tljh/installer.py - Remove all apt checks
Edit bootstrap.py - Remove line that does pip3 update on and the repo

Edit /opt/tljh/hub/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/systemdspawner/systemd.py - Comment out this line (55) "run_cmd.append('--property=WorkingDirectory={}'.format(shlex.quote(working_dir)))"

[adamboutcher]

If I get time and need to reinstall my tljh setup then I’ll push a CentOS/Fedora installer.

[consideRatio]

We’ve deliberated a bit about maintenance of a TLJH installation against other distributions than Ubuntu LTS, but for now I think the answer is that we won’t try to go for that.

I’ve marked this as a “wontfix” issue to indicate that, but I figure it would be good to retain this issue as it contains a lot of effort to make a CentOS installation possible.