Question

[Kyle D. Harris]

I'm simply trying to install an upgraded version of SSH (3.7 or higher) for a RH 8.0 server and also on a 6.2 server. I am having a difficult time finding the files for those versions of redhat. I see alot of the SSH 3.7 files in directories associated with 9.0 ...

Does it work if i still download those files even though I have 6.2 and 8.0? Thanks

Kyle

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

I think you can try to install the RH9 version of SSH (.rpm files, I suppose) on RH8. Probably it will ask you to upgrade some other packages. If this upgrade doesn't fall into a too long dependance-chain, it should work.
About RH62... Maybe it is better to recompile SSH from sources.

Ciao,
Claudio

[Mark Grant]

Kyle,

You are going to have a hard time finding rpm's for 6.2. However, compiling ssh may be even more difficult on 6.2. You are going to have to upgrade so many libraries and things that it could turn you off the whole compile it yourself scene. Unless, of course, you have managed to keep all your other libraries updated on this box.

It might be time to upgrade your 6.2 system.

[Steven E. Protter]

Kyle,

Its going to be tough.

There are required tools for the new version of SSH that are not included in the 6.2 and 8.0 Red Hat.

You can do the rpm -i install, read the rpms that are missing, download those rpm's try those inistalls and read that requirement list.

When I tried it, I got three levels in with a long list and stopped.

You are better off planning a careful 9.0 upgrade. The only part of that release that gave me serious headaches was sendmail 8.12

You can opt out on those headaches at upgrade time.

SEP

[Kyle D. Harris]

Steven,
You mention "careful upgrade" and "headaches", yet your far more advanced in knowledge then me, which scares me. Just how difficult would upgrading to 9.0 from 6.2 on a production server be? I do agree, it probly would be better off, or at least I get that impression.

[Huc_1]

I also would favor upgrade if this posible at least with the 6.2 you probably can do this in 2 steps (from 6.2 to 7.2 from 7.2 to 9.0).

One argument to sell this is the more you wait the harder you will find it to install new things (like now ssh)

The only reason I find to not do this is if you realy have a static enviroment, then perhaps the efford of just installing/compilling from source and installing libs would be worth it

You could also test upgrades by doing the 8.0 to 9.0 as this is probably not to risky

J-P

[Huc_1]

kyle,

I will rectify this you can do the upgrade from 6.2 to 9.0 in one go have a look at the following link !

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-upgrade.html

I must say I have not tryed this, I have migrated from 6.2 to 9.0 in namy small steps

J-P