Section 2. Installing Radiator Service Provider Module

2. Installing Radiator Service Provider Module

This section the describes how to install Radiator Service Provider Module.

2.1. Prerequisites

Radiator Service Provider Module requires Radiator 4.26 or later.

SCTP multihoming support requires Radiator Radius::UtilXS Perl module which is available in Radiator downloads

.

Possible updates to the prerequisites are listed on Radiator Service Provider Module pages

(login required). For more information on Radiator, see Radiator reference manual

.

2.2. Installing and upgrading Radiator Service Provider Module

This section provides instructions for installing and upgrading Radiator Service Provider Module. Radiator Service Provider Module is available for a wide range of platforms and the installation procedure depends on the platform and the type of package selected.

2.2.1. Installing and upgrading on Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux

These packages have been tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9, and compatible systems such as CentOS, Oracle Linux, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

To install Radiator Service Provider Module:

Download the Radiator Carrier distribution package for your operating system from Radiator downloads
Install the package. On RHEL 7 and compatible systems use package that ends with el7.noarch.rpm:
```
sudo yum install ./radiator-carrier-x.yy-nn.el7.noarch.rpm
```
On RHEL 8 and compatible systems use package that ends with el8.noarch.rpm:
```
sudo yum install ./radiator-carrier-x.yy-nn.el8.noarch.rpm
```
On RHEL 9 and compatible systems use package that ends with el9.noarch.rpm:
```
sudo yum install ./radiator-carrier-x.yy-nn.el9.noarch.rpm
```
Restart Radiator:
```
sudo systemctl restart radiator
```
Set Radiator to start automatically when booting. For more information, see Radiator reference manual .

See /opt/radiator/radiator-carrier/goodies/ for Radiator Service Provider Module configuration samples.

Upgrading from an el7, el8 or el9 RPM

Upgrades between el7 and el8 and el8 and el9 packages do not require any special commands. Use yum install or any other commands that you typically use to upgrade packages. Note: remember to restart radiator after each upgrade.

2.2.2. Installing and upgrading on Linux: Ubuntu and Debian

These packages have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and Debian 9, 10, 11 and 12.

To install Radiator Service Provider Module:

Download the Radiator Carrier distribution package for your operating system from Radiator downloads
Install the package. On Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and Debian 9 (Stretch), 10 (Buster), 11 (Bullseye) or 12 (Bookworm) the package is named as radiator-carrier_x.yy-nn_all.deb:
```
sudo apt install ./radiator-carrier_x.yy-nn_all.deb
```
Restart Radiator:
```
sudo systemctl restart radiator
```
Set Radiator to start automatically when booting. For more information, see Radiator reference manual .

See /opt/radiator/radiator-carrier/goodies/ for Radiator Service Provider Module configuration samples.

Upgrading from a deb

Upgrades between deb packages do not require any special commands. Use

apt
                     install

or any other commands that you typically use to upgrade packages. Note: remember to restart radiator after each upgrade.

2.2.3. Installing and upgrading with source code package

Also known as the tar or tgz package, this is the general and widely portable procedure for installing Radiator Service Provider Module. However, a number of platform-specific installation methods are also available.

The Radiator Service Provider Module source code is supplied as a gzipped, tarred package. The standard distribution file name is Radius-Carrier-x.yy-nn.tgz, where "x.yy-nn" is the revision number.

Download the Radiator Carrier source code package from Radiator downloads and save it to somewhere suitable, such as /usr/local/src/.
Unpack the source code package as follows:
```
tar xvf Radius-Carrier-x.yy-nn.tgz
```
Unpacking creates a directory Radius-Carrier-x.yy-nn into the current directory:
```
cd Radius-Carrier-x.yy-nn
```
Prepare the distribution for installation:
```
perl Makefile.PL
```
Run the installation. You may need the root access rights for running this command:
```
make install
```
Set Radiator to start automatically when booting. For more information, see Radiator reference manual .

Upgrading

To upgrade Radiator Service Provider Module with .tgz package, repeat the installation using the new distribution package file. The files in the new distribution will overwrite any files in the old distribution.

2.2.4. Installing and upgrading from repository

Follow the installation instructions from Radiator Carrier repository pages available in Radiator Linux package repositories

Upgrading from repository

Upgrades from repository do not require any special commands, use commands that you typically use to upgrade packages. Note: remember to restart radiator after each upgrade.