Installation

Requirements

Make sure you followed the requirements.

Tarball

You can get the LSC distribution from the download area. Get zip or tar.gz archive, and unarchive it:

tar zxvf lsc-core-VERSION-dist.tar.gz

LSC is now installed in the subdirectory lsc-VERSION. The main files are:

  • bin/lsc: wrapper to launch LSC

  • etc/lsc.xml: main configuration file

  • sample/: sample scripts

Red-hat-like distribution

LSC is packaged for RedHat/CentOS/Rockylinux/Almalinux distributions. You can either install RPM manually, or use our YUM repository.

Using yum repository is encouraged.

Manual download

You can download the RPM here: download area.

The public key can be downloaded here: https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg

To import this key:

rpm --import https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg

Just run this command to install them (with dependency management):

dnf install ./lsc*

Yum repository

Important

Yum repositories are available for this release versions ($releasever):

  • 8/8Server

  • 9/9Server

Configure the yum repository :

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/lsc-project.repo

[lsc-project]
name=LSC project packages
baseurl=http://lsc-project.org/rpm/$releasever/noarch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/lsc-project-security.gpg

Then update:

dnf update

The public key can be downloaded here: https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg

To import this key:

rpm --import https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg

You are now ready to install:

dnf install lsc

Debian

LSC is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu distributions. You can either install it manually, or use our APT repository:

Using apt repository is encouraged.

Manual download

You can download the package here.

Just run this command to install:

dpkg -i lsc*

APT repository

Configure the apt repository :

vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lsc-project.list

deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/lsc-project.gpg]     https://lsc-project.org/debian lsc main

The public key can be downloaded here: https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg

To import this key:

curl https://lsc-project.org/documentation/latest/security/lsc-project-security.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/lsc-project.gpg

Then update:

apt update

You are now ready to install:

apt install lsc

Files location

With RPM or Debian packages, LSC files are installed in the following locations:

  • /usr/bin/lsc: wrapper to launch LSC

  • /etc/lsc/: configuration

  • /var/log/lsc/: logs

  • /lib/systemd/system/lsc-* services and timers for sync and async connectors

  • /etc/default/lsc-*: default configuration for sync and async services

  • /etc/cron.d/lsc: cron configuration

  • /usr/lib/lsc/ or /usr/lib64/lsc/: LSC libraries

  • /var/lib/lsc/nagios/: monitoring scripts

  • /usr/share/doc/lsc: sample scripts