What is the difference between the 3 installation methods (Source, Stack, Package)?
• Zenoss provides a Stack or Bin installer based on a Bitrock installer program. This installer works somewhat like a Windows installer. You run the program, it installs Zenoss, the needed dependancies, and extra packages like MySQL that you need to use it. Most of these are all installed specially for use by Zenoss. This is a good install method if you have a clean Linux install, and want to have Zenoss manage all parts of the Zenoss Stack. • Note: This can be problematic if you want this OS instance or server to run other applications in addition to Zenoss, especially MySQL or JBoss. • The .DEB file is actually a stack installer that is managed by apt, so it contains all of its dependencies including MySQL. • Linux normally uses packages (usually via repositories, but you can download them as well) to install and manage programs. On Red Hat this is RPM and on Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu etc) it is DEB. You use the appropriate package manager for your platform (which is outside the
