How to install gcc on Citrix XEN Server

Haneef Puttur

11 years ago

By default, XenServer enables only Citrix yum repository. For example, to examine all enabled repositories on XenServer, run the following.

$ sudo yum repolist enabled

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
repo id                   repo name                                   status
citrix                    XenServer 5.6.100 updates                   enabled: 0

However, the default Citrix yum repository is void of any useful software. If you want to install a standard Linux package on XenServer, you need to enable a base repository as follows.

$ sudo yum –enablerepo=base –disablerepo=citrix install traceroute

If you want to enable base repo on XenServer permanently by default, you can update /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo as follows.

$ sudo sed -i -e “s/enabled=0/enabled=1/” /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

From this point on, you can install any software package available in base repository without explicitly enabling it.

$ sudo yum install vim-enhanced
$ sudo yum install gcc