CentOS 7 ELS

End of life from June 2024. TuxCare ELS continues to deliver security updates.

Installation

Prerequisites

A valid TuxCare Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) license key
Root access to the server
TCP port 443 open to cln.cloudlinux.com, repo.tuxcare.com, and rollout.tuxcare.com
Architecture: x86_64 and aarch64. For other architectures, please contact our [email protected].

On aarch64, ELS covers userspace packages. Kernel live patching is available for x86_64 only.

Download the install script

wget https://repo.tuxcare.com/centos7-els/install-centos7-els-repo.sh

Run with your license key (see Prerequisites above)
The script registers the server in the CLN with the key, adds a PGP key to the server.
```
sh install-centos7-els-repo.sh --license-key XXXXXXXX
```

Verify that the installation was successful by running the following command

yum info els-os-release

It should return information about the available package. If the package information is displayed, the installation was successful. After that, you can install updates from the repository using a standard yum upgrade command.

Example:

[els@centos7 ~]# yum info els-os-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Installed Packages
Name        : els-os-release
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 1.0.0
Release     : 2.el7
Size        : 8.2 k
Repo        : installed
Summary     : TuxCare OS ELS repository configuration
License     : GPLv2+
Description : This package configures the TuxCare ELS repository for
            : CentOS/RHEL systems.