installing Security Management on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

This page gives some of the pre-requisite details / instructions if installing Check Point to a device running RedHat. It should also work for the open source version of RedHat... CentOS. Why install to one of these platforms??? because they are better than SPLAT or in some cases Gaia. SPLAT and Gaia are too stripped down and are missing basic utilities such as rsync. Gaia firewalls are decent with desirable functions built in like vrrp and clish. But a RedHat based SmartCenter or Provider-1 is hands down better than SPLAT or Gaia.

Versions

This instructions are found in the Release Notes for the following versions... versions: Check Point R70, R71, and R75

Install Instructions

Before you install Security Management on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5:

1. Install the sharutils-4.6.1-2 package

a) Make sure that you have the sharutils-4.6.1-2 package installed by running:

rpm -qa | grep sharutils-4.6.1-2

b) If the package is not already installed, install it by running:

rpm –i sharutils-4.6.1-2.i386.rpm

This package can be found on CD 3 of RHEL 5.

2. Install the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 package

a) Make sure that you have the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 package by running:

rpm –qa | grep compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

b) If the package is not already installed, install it by running:

rpm –i compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

This package can be found on CD 2 of RHEL 5.

3. Disable SeLinux

a) Make sure that SeLinux is disabled by running: getenforce

b) If SeLinux is enabled, disable it by setting SELINUX=disabled in the /etc/selinux/config file and rebooting the computer.