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Chapter 2. Prerequisites

  • On RHEL Atomic Host, atomic is part of the OSTree and is ready to use.

  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, make sure you have covered the following:

    • Subscribe the system to the Extras channel which provides the atomic package.

For Red Hat Subscription Management run this command: 

# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
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If you are using Satellite, run: 

# rhn-channel --add --channel rhel-x86_64-server-extras-7
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  • Install atomic using Yum: 
# yum install atomic
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  • Make sure the docker service is running: 
# systemctl status docker
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If the output states "inactive", use the following command: 

# systemctl start docker
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Note

On both systems, you need to have root privileges to use atomic.

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