Adding the Data Fabric Repository on Ubuntu

This section describes how to install the Data Fabric repository.

Procedure

  1. Change to the root user or use sudo.
  2. Create the following file:
    # cat /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/package.ezmeral.hpe.com.conf
    machine package.ezmeral.hpe.com
    login <HPE-Passport-email>
    password <HPE-Passport-token>
  3. Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing <version> with the version of Data Fabric software that you want to install. See the Data Fabric Repositories and Packages for the correct paths for all past releases.
    Release 7.0.0 (with EEP 8.1.0) and later
    IMPORTANT
    To access the Data Fabric internet repository, you must specify the email and token of an HPE Passport account. For more information, see Using the HPE Ezmeral Token-Authenticated Internet Repository.
    deb https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/v<version>/ubuntu/ binary bionic
    deb https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/MEP-<version>/ubuntu/ binary bionic
    Release 5.2.1 through 6.2.0
    deb https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/v<version>/ubuntu/ binary trusty
    deb https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/MEP-<version>/ubuntu/ binary trusty
  4. Update the package indexes:
    apt-get update
  5. If your connection to the Internet is through a proxy server, add the following lines to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
    Acquire 
    {
      Retries "0";
      HTTP 
      {
         Proxy "http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>";  
      };
    };