Configure package repository

CloudStack is only distributed from source from the official mirrors. However, members of the CloudStack community may build convenience binaries so that users can install Apache CloudStack without needing to build from source.

If you didn’t follow the steps to build your own packages from source in the sections for “Building RPMs from Source” or “Building DEB packages” you may find pre-built DEB and RPM packages for your convenience linked from the downloads page.

Note

These repositories contain both the Management Server and KVM Hypervisor packages.

RPM package repository

There is a RPM package repository for CloudStack so you can easily install on RHEL and SUSE based platforms.

If you’re using an RPM-based system, you’ll want to add the Yum repository so that you can install CloudStack with Yum.

In RHEL or CentOS:

Yum repository information is found under /etc/yum.repos.d. You’ll see several .repo files in this directory, each one denoting a specific repository.

To add the CloudStack repository, create /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudstack.repo and insert the following information.

In the case of RHEL being used, you can replace ‘centos’ by ‘rhel’ in the value of baseurl

[cloudstack]
name=cloudstack
baseurl=http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/$releasever/4.19/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Now you should now be able to install CloudStack using Yum.

In SUSE:

Zypper repository information is found under /etc/zypp/repos.d/. You’ll see several .repo files in this directory, each one denoting a specific repository.

To add the CloudStack repository, create /etc/zypp/repos.d/cloudstack.repo and insert the following information.

[cloudstack]
name=cloudstack
baseurl=http://download.cloudstack.org/suse/4.19/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Now you should now be able to install CloudStack using zypper.

DEB package repository

You can add a DEB package repository to your apt sources with the following commands. Replace the code name with your Ubuntu LTS version : Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) . Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) is no longer supported.

Use your preferred editor and open (or create) /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudstack.list. Add the community provided repository to the file (replace “trusty” with “xenial” or “bionic” if it is the case):

deb https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu focal 4.19

We now have to add the public key to the trusted keys.

wget -O - https://download.cloudstack.org/release.asc |sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cloudstack.asc

Now update your local apt cache.

sudo apt update

Your DEB package repository should now be configured and ready for use.