Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Development Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.1. Prequisites
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met when installing Red Hat Development Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
- Sign Up for the Red Hat Developer Program: Join the program here: Red Hat Developer Program. After signing up, you must wait approximately fifteen minutes to allow the new account information to propagate to the Red Hat Subscription Management system.
- Enable the rhel-7-server-devtools-rpms repository on Red Hat Enterprise Linux server or enable the rhel-7-workstation-devtools-rpms repository on Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation
- Enable the rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms repository
For more information on enabling the Red Hat Developer Tools Repository, go to Section 4.2, “Enabling the Red Hat Developer Tools repository”.
4.2. Enabling the Red Hat Developer Tools repository
To enable the Red Hat Developer Tools repositories:
Run the following commands as the root user:
# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-devtools-rpms # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
NoteIn the above command, depending on the variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that you are using, server or workstation, the commands will be:
- For the workstation variant: subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-workstation-devtools-rpms
- For the server variant: subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-devtools-rpms
For developers, we recommend using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for access to the widest range of development tools.
For more information on registering and attaching subscriptions, see Using and Configuring Red Hat Subscription Management.
To add the Red Hat Developer Tools key to your system, run the following commands as the root user:
# cd /etc/pki/rpm-gpg # wget -O RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-devel https://www.redhat.com/security/data/a5787476.txt # rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-devel
4.3. Installing Red Hat Development Suite
To only install Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, run the following command as root:
# yum -y install rh-eclipse47-devstudio
4.3.1. Installing JBoss Developer Studio on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
To only install Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, run the following command as root:
# yum -y install rh-eclipse47-devstudio
4.3.2. Installing Red Hat Container Development Kit
To only install Red Hat Container Development Kit, run the following command as root:
# yum -y install cdk-minishift
4.4. Next Steps After Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The following links have more information on next steps:
- To setup Red Hat Container Development Kit, see Getting Started Guide.
- To start a local OpenShift cluster with Minishift, see the Minishift documentation.
To run Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio:
- Use Applications→Programming→Red Hat Eclipse 4.7 launcher