Installing Gluster
For RPM based distributions, if you will be using InfiniBand, add the glusterfs RDMA package to the installations. For RPM based systems, yum is used as the install method in order to satisfy external depencies such as compat-readline5
For Debian
Download the packages
wget -nd -nc -r -A.deb http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/wheezy/ (Note from reader: The above does not work. Check http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/ for 3.5 version or use http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/glusterfs-server
Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)
dpkg -i glusterfs_3.5.2-4_amd64.deb
For Ubuntu
Ubuntu 10 and 12: install python-software-properties:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
Ubuntu 14: install software-properties-common:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Then add the community GlusterFS PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gluster/glusterfs-3.5
sudo apt-get update
Finally, install the packages:
sudo apt-get install glusterfs-server
Note: Packages exist for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.10, and 14.04 LTS
For Red Hat/CentOS
Download the packages (modify URL for your specific release and architecture).
wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/RHEL/glusterfs-epel.repo
Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)
yum install glusterfs-server
For Fedora
Install the Gluster packages (do this on both servers)
yum install glusterfs-server
Once you are finished installing, you can move on to configuration section.
