Installing M3 from a RPM

Owned by Nathaniel Halbrooks
Last updated: Jan 11, 2024
2 min read

The easiest and fastest way to get M3 set up and installed is to lease a specific M3 Server from our FreePBX hosting partner FreePBXHosting.com starting at $24.99 a month. This will include everything outlined below and will allow you to skip right to the Setup M3 wiki here.

If you chose to install it yourself, please be aware that some hosting companies are not compatible with M3. Currently, this list includes (but may not be limited to):

  • Microsoft Azure (Blocks ICMP, also uses a non-standard CentOS Image)

  • OpenVZ Containers with 'venet' network interfaces ('veth' works)

M3 has been designed to work on any CentOS based linux 6.X or 7.X and will require you to do a minimal install of CentOS first.  Make sure to leave the default SSH port of 22 in place or the install will not complete. You can download and install CentOS from the CentOS website.  Once installed you will need to follow the steps below.  CentOS is a registered trade mark of Red Hat Inc.

Verify Selinux is disabled

  • Check to see if selinux is enabled

[root@m3 ~]# cat /etc/selinux/config  # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=enforcing # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values: # targeted - Targeted processes are protected, # mls - Multi Level Security protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted [root@m3 ~]#

 

  • As we can see SELINUX is set to enforcing.  We will need to disable this.

nano /etc/selinux/config

 

Edit the file and set SELINUX to be disabled. The file should look like this

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: #     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. #     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. #     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values: #     targeted - Targeted processes are protected, #     mls - Multi Level Security protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted

 

  • Reboot your machine now.

 

Installing M3 RPM

  • Pick which core Operating System you will install M3 on from below.

  • CentOS 6

Copy and paste the following: (Note that the \ is removed when you copy and paste it)

 

  • CentOS 7

    • BETA ONLY AT THIS TIME

 

 

  • Once M3 has been installed you should see a terminal screen like this.

 

  • Make sure iptables is stopped

 

 

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