For more information about preparing for and installing the Agent software for a Linux machine that is
not connected to the Internet, see the topic:
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Installing the Agent software on offline Linux machines
Before you begin installation of Agent software, see the topics: Downloading the Linux distribution, About
security, Location of Linux Agent files, Agent dependencies, Linux scripting information in the Dell Data
Protection | Rapid Recovery 6.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide.
Location of Linux Agent files
There are several files required to support the Rapid Recovery Agent software on a Linux machine. For all
supported Linux distributions, these files are located in the following directories:
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mono:
/opt/apprecovery/mono
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agent:
/opt/apprecovery/agent
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local mount:
/opt/apprecovery/local_mount
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rapidrecovery-vdisk and aavdctl:
/usr/bin/aavdisk
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configuration files for rapidrecovery-vdisk:
/etc/apprecovery/aavdisk.conf
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wrappers for agent and local_mount
/usr/bin/agent
/usr/bin/local_mount
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autorun scripts for agent and rapidrecovery-vdisk:
/etc/init.d/rapidrecovery-agent
/etc/init.d/rapidrecovery-vdisk
Agent dependencies
The following dependencies are required and are installed as part of the Agent installer package:
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For Debian and Ubuntu:
– The rapidrecovery-agent requires:
dkms, gcc, make, linux-headers-'uname-r'
– The rapidrecovery-mono requires:
libc6 (>=2.7-18)
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For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux:
– The nbd-dkms requires
dkms, gcc, make, kernel-headers-'uname-r' kernel-devel-'uname-r'
– The rapidrecovery-agent requires:
dkms, gcc, make, kernel-headers-'uname-r' kernel-devel-'uname-r',
– The rapidrecovery-mono requires:
glibc >=2.11
libc6 (>=2.7-18), libblkid1, libpam0g, libpcre3
nbd-dkms, libblkid, pam, pcre
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