Multiple errors trying to install on RHEL 5.4

[ykaul]

When trying to install the tests of the suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, I'm getting multiple errors. I'm trying with 2.4a2:
1. Many dependent packages are either non-existent in RHEL 5.4, or are wrongly named (or just different, the usually end up in -devel not -dev, for example).
2. When trying to download php (php-5.2.9.tar.gz), it always complains on wrong MD5 checksum. I suspect the file is just not available from those sites, not that its MD5 is wrong.
3. I'm getting many installation errors - I believe many are due to missing g++ (command not found) - but I did not get it as a required package to begin with. I do have gcc (4.1.2-46) installed. It probably needed gcc-c++

I'll be happy to test a newer version, hopefully making it working on RHEL.
Y.

[jmnos]

Compare the md5s exactly.

I installed all the tests except 1, which I am still working on....

I had to download any failing tests manually.
If none of the URLs work, then google it...

Make sure that you are using 2.x

It sometimes complains about md5 when it cant get it from a link....

What I did is set up local mirror of all the tests/files, made a script to patch it all and it all worked.

You have to patch all the downloads.xml files, remove url with local address and if your testing one of your boxes, it will just pull it locally.

There is also a way to drop it in the .phoronix folder tree that is created in your home directory.....but I dont remember how to do it..

[Michael]

You have to patch all the downloads.xml files, remove url with local address and if your testing one of your boxes, it will just pull it locally.

There is also a way to drop it in the .phoronix folder tree that is created in your home directory.....but I dont remember how to do it..

The way to do it is to just drop the file in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/download-cache/, as easy as that.