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2013-03-20

We are proud to announce that Rex was voted under the Best Open Source solutions 2013 by initiative mittelstand. And we want to thank inovex for the support to make this happen.

Conferences

Open Source Data Center Conference

17 - 18 April 2013 in Nuremberg

OSDC is about simplifying complex IT infrastructures with Open Source. A rare opportunity to meet with Open Source professionals and insiders, gather and share information over 2 days of presentations, hands-on workshops and social networking.

We are proud to anounce that Rex will have a booth on the LinuxTag. The LinuxTag will take place in Berlin from 22. - 25. May. LinuxTag is the most popuplar and important conference in the Linux and Open Source scene in Europe.

Come and join us, we will do live demostrations with a custom build portable mini datacenter.

If you want to help us for a day or two don't hesitate to contact @jfried83.

Need Help?

Rex is a pure Open Source project. So you can find community support in the following places.

• IRC: #rex on freenode
• Groups: rex-users
• Issues: on Github
• Feature: You miss a feature?
• Professional Support: by inovex

Get Rex

You can install Rex with a simple one-liner

$ curl -L get.rexify.org | perl - --sudo -n Rex

Linux

Rex is also available as a package for many major distributions. Just choose your distribution and follow the steps shown.

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/ubuntu/ lucid rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/ubuntu/ natty rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/ubuntu/ oneiric rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/ubuntu/ precise rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/ubuntu/ quantal rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/debian/ squeeze rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/debian/ wheezy rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

echo 'deb http://rex.linux-files.org/debian/ lenny rex' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O - http://rex.linux-files.org/DPKG-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install rex

emerge -av app-admin/rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO.CENTOS6

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rex.repo <<EOF
[rex]
name=Fedora \$releasever - \$basearch - Rex Repository
baseurl=http://rex.linux-files.org/CentOS/\$releasever/rex/\$basearch/
enabled=1
EOF

yum install rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO.CENTOS5

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rex.repo <<EOF
[rex]
name=Fedora \$releasever - \$basearch - Rex Repository
baseurl=http://rex.linux-files.org/CentOS/\$releasever/rex/\$basearch/
enabled=1
EOF

yum install rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO
zypper addrepo -t rpm-md -f -n rex http://rex.linux-files.org/OpenSuSE/12.3/x86_64/ rex
zypper install rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO
zypper addrepo -t rpm-md -f -n rex http://rex.linux-files.org/OpenSuSE/12.1/x86_64/ rex
zypper install rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO
zypper addrepo -t rpm-md -f -n rex http://rex.linux-files.org/OpenSuSE/11.4/x86_64/ rex
zypper install rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO
urpmi.addmedia rex http://rex.linux-files.org/Mageia/1/x86_64/
urpmi rex

rpm --import http://rex.linux-files.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-REXIFY-REPO

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rex.repo <<EOF
[rex]
name=Fedora \$releasever - \$basearch - Rex Repository
baseurl=http://rex.linux-files.org/Fedora/Core/\$releasever/rex/\$basearch/
enabled=1
EOF

yum install rex

Apple Mac OS X

To install Rex on Mac OSX you have to install libssh2 first. You can do this with MacPorts or with Homebrew.

We recommend using MacPorts. First you need to install XCode. After you've installed it you'll find a package for your system here.

If you're using homebrew we recommend to install a custom perl with Perlbrew.

Installation instructions for MacPorts:

sudo port install libssh2 perl5
curl -L get.rexify.org | perl - --sudo -n Rex

Microsoft Windows

Tested with Windows Vista and Windows 7 (64bit) and Strawberry Perl 5.x

Start a CMD window and type:

cpanm Rex

If you want to use Rex/Boxes you need to add the installation path of VirtualBox to your PATH environment variable. The default installation path is C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox. If you need instructions how to do that you can read this article on ComputerHope.

Other / From Source

If you want to download the latest sources from Github you can do it this way. The master branch is the current latest stable version. Every development is done in its own version branch.

git clone https://github.com/krimdomu/Rex.git
cd Rex
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

You can also use the CPAN shell to install Rex. This will download the latest release form CPAN.

perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan[1]> install Rex

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