Cluster Glue and Heartbeat are available as pre-built binary packages on a number of platforms, including
squeeze and up, backports packages are
available for lenny);
lucid);
Commercially supported enterprise packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise server are available from LINBIT.
This section describes the steps necessary to install binary packages on these platforms.
Installing the cluster-glue and heartbeat packages on Debian and
Ubuntu is a straightforward process. Assuming you have the correct
package repositories configured for APT, install the two packages with
the following commands:
aptitude install heartbeat cluster-glue
Since you most likely will also want to install Pacemaker (beyond the scope of this manual), do so by issuing the following commands as well:
aptitude install cluster-agents pacemaker