Installing rabbitmq-server on RHEL
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Solution 1
You will need to ensure that an up-to-date version of Erlang is installed. It is available in the EPEL repository.
You can install it by performing the following:
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-erlang.repo http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/peter/erlang/epel-erlang.repo
yum install erlang
Following the above setup of Erlang, you can then proceed to install RabbitMQ as follows:
rpm --import http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
yum install rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch.rpm
You can find more info in their setup guide
Solution 2
You need to install erlang via RPM for it to recognise the dependency.
The erlang RPMs are available in the EPEL repository:
https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-rpm.html
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Jacques Betancourt
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Jacques Betancourt almost 2 years
When trying to install rabbitmq-server on RHEL:
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-1XX ~]$ sudo rpm -i rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: erlang >= R13B-03 is needed by rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch [ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-1XX ~]$ rpm -i rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: erlang >= R13B-03 is needed by rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch
I'm unsure why trying to rpm install isn't recognizing my erlang install since running
$ erl
gives:[ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-1XX ~]$ which erl /usr/local/bin/erl [ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-1XX ~]$ sudo which erl /bin/erl