[Users] Installing BIND on VE's

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Fri Dec 22 08:46:07 EST 2006


Jan Tomasek wrote:
> Hello Al,
>
> Al Sparks wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to set up a test environment of name servers.  I downloaded
>> the BIND tarball to one of the Virtual Environment, and tried to
>> compile it.  That didn't work, because there's no gcc installed.
>>     
>
> why you do not install gcc into VE? I'm handling VE almost as ordinary
> system running on physical HW. Template which come with OpenVZ (at least
> for Debian which I'm using) is very basic instalation of Linux, I have
> to install there numerous packages to be able use it for my work.
>   
That's why it is called "minimal" -- it's a boilerplate, so you should 
use apt-get/aptitude/any-other-tool to install whatever you need on top 
of that. By the way you can tar the result and use it as a template to 
create other VEs.


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