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Installation

The subscription-manager codebase is on GitHub. The project is built for the latest versions of Fedora (and submitted to Fedora Updates), CentOS Stream and RHEL.

To install subscription-manager, run

sudo dnf install subscription-manager

RHEL already comes with subscription-manager pre-installed. With subscription-manager present, you can get register the system with your Red Hat account by running

sudo subscription-manager register

Developer installation

The process below has been tested on Fedora 36 and RHEL 9. Other versions or distributions may require some adaptation.

  1. First you need to install RPM packages to build and run subscription-manager binaries:

    sudo dnf install git gcc python3-devel openssl-devel glib2-devel \
    python3-rpm python3-librepo libdnf-devel cmake

    On RHEL, you need to enable the CodeReady Linux Builder repository in order to gain access to the development packages like libdnf-devel.

    sudo subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms

  2. Install the subscription-manager RPM (not required for RHEL) and packages required to run the test suite:

    NOTE: Installing subscription-manager package is not strictly necessary even on Fedora, but it will pull down all dependencies and create all the files used by subscription-manager.

    sudo dnf install --setopt install_weak_deps=False subscription-manager \
    dbus-daemon glibc-langpack-en glibc-langpack-de glibc-langpack-ja

  3. Install Python packages in virtual environment to prevent polluting userspace:

    NOTE: This step is optional.

    sudo dnf install python3-pip
mkdir -p ~/.venvs/
python3 -m venv --system-site-packages ~/.venvs/subscription-manager
source ~/.venvs/subscription-manager/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install wheel

  4. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager.git
cd subscription-manager/

  5. Build the project:

    ./setup.py build
./setup.py build_ext --inplace

  6. Test your local installation:

    sudo PYTHONPATH=./src python3 -m subscription_manager.scripts.subscription_manager

    NOTE: Adjust the path accordingly.

    You can setup an alias in .bashrc (or equivalent), so you can run it more easily:

    alias subscription-manager="sudo \
    PYTHONPATH=/path/to/subscription-manager/src \
    $(which python3) \
    -m subscription_manager.scripts.subscription_manager"

  7. You can also set up aliases for rhsm.service and rhsmcertd.service.

    NOTE: Adjust the paths accordingly.

    alias rhsm-service="sudo \
    PYTHONPATH=/path/to/subscription-manager/src \
    $(which python3) \
    -m subscription_manager.scripts.rhsm_service --verbose"
alias rhsmcertd="sudo \
    PYTHONPATH=/path/to/subscription-manager/src \
    $(which python3) \
    -m subscription_manager.scripts.rhsmcertd_worker"

    Before you run rhsm service manually, ensure you have disabled the system service first:

    sudo systemctl stop rhsm.service