Github user justinleet commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1152#discussion_r208932022
--- Diff: metron-sensors/pycapa/README.md ---
@@ -76,8 +79,83 @@ General notes on the installation of Pycapa.
python setup.py install
```
+### Centos 6
+
+* These instructions can be used directly on CentOS 6 - useful for
developers using the Full Dev Vagrant test box.
+* Older distributions, like CentOS 6, that come with Python 2.6 installed,
should install Python 2.7 within a virtual environment and then run Pycapa from
within the virtual environment.
+
+1. Set up a couple environment variables.
+
+ ```
+ PYCAPA_HOME=/opt/pycapa
+ PYTHON27_HOME=/opt/rh/python27/root
+ ```
+
+1. Install required packages.
+
+ ```
+ for item in epel-release centos-release-scl "@Development tools"
python27 python27-scldevel python27-python-virtualenv libpcap-devel
libselinux-python; do yum install -y $item; done
+ ```
+
+1. Setup Pycapa directory.
+
+ ```
+ mkdir $PYCAPA_HOME && chmod 755 $PYCAPA_HOME
+ ```
+
+1. Create the virtualenv.
+
+ ```
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/rh/python27/root/usr/lib64"
+ cd $PYCAPA_HOME
+ ${PYTHON27_HOME}/usr/bin/virtualenv pycapa-venv
+ ```
+
+1. Install Librdkafka at your chosen $PREFIX.
+
+ ```
+ export PREFIX=/usr
+ wget https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/archive/v0.11.5.tar.gz
-O - | tar -xz
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for.
I did see the FAIL/ERROR messages, but I had the same experience where it
ran as expected. I suspected it was due to initial connection setup, because
once it started writing, it worked as expected.
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