How to install Beanstalkd in Red Hat Openshift?

Question

First I logged in to my application using ssh, in ubuntu terminal.

Then tried to install it using sudo apt-get install beanstalkd

But the result is:

test.rhcloud.com 123]\> sudo apt-get install beanstalkd
bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Permission denied

Then I found that I should use yum command to install packages, So tried the following method, and got the result as follows:

test.rhcloud.com 123]\> su -c 'yum install beanstalkd'
bash: /bin/su: Permission denied

Also tried this:

test.rhcloud.com 123]\> yum install beanstalkd
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed

Any command with yum is resulting to the same error

error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed

I am using the Beanstalkd Queue in my Laravel 4.2 Application.

Answer 1

You can't install packages into a openshift gear, your best chances are:

• you can develop a cartridge and this will provide beanstalkd
• you run the beanstalkd binary from the userdata directory

Moreover beanstalkd is a work queue that must be installed on the host, this is really unfortunate because you can't run it on another gear on the openshift platform.