Installing only the IPA server requires a single package, ipa-server. If the IPA server will also manage a DNS server, then it requires two additional packages to set up the DNS.

All of these packages can be installed using the yum command:

# yum install ipa-server bind bind-dyndb-ldap

Installing the ipa-server also installs a large number of dependencies, such as 389-ds-base for the LDAP service and krb5-server for the Kerberos service, along with IPA tools.

After the packages are installed, the server instance must be created using the ipa-server-install command. The options for configuring the new server instance are described in Section 2.4, “Creating an IPA Server Instance”.