MDS from Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 (MES 5)

You can try for free MDS using the MES 5 Linux distribution.

The Mandriva Server Installation Wizard will allow you to easily configure, setup and test MDS. This is the recommended and easiest way to test MDS.

VMware image (deprecated)

A VMWare image is available for download.

Tarballs

Go to this page.

Mandriva 2008.1 and 2009.0 RPM packages

The packages are available on official Mandriva package repositories.

You will find an official mirror using the Mandriva mirror finder module.

Then, you can register a package repository with this command:

# For Mandriva 2009.0 (MDS 2.3.2)
urpmi.addmedia Community_Main ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2009.0/i586/media/main/backports/
# For Mandriva 2008.1 (MDS 2.3.1)
urpmi.addmedia Community_Main ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.1/i586/media/main/backports/

For 64 bits architecture:

# For Mandriva 2009.0 (MDS 2.3.2)
urpmi.addmedia Community_Main ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2009.0/x86_64/media/main/backports/
# For Mandriva 2008.1 (MDS 2.3.1)
urpmi.addmedia Community_Main ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.1/x86_64/media/main/backports/

The latest MDS version is available on Mandriva 2008 backports repository.

Please follow installation instructions.

Mandriva Corporate Server 4 RPM packages

You can register the CS4 package repository with this command for 32 bits architecture:

urpmi.addmedia mds http://mds.mandriva.org/pub/mds/RPM/i586

For 64 bits architecture:

urpmi.addmedia mds http://mds.mandriva.org/pub/mds/RPM/x86_64

And follow installation instructions.

Debian packages for Etch and Lenny

Please add this line in /etc/apt/sources.list according to your Debian distribution release and follow installation instructions.

# For Etch
deb http://mds.mandriva.org/pub/mds/debian etch main
# For Lenny
deb http://mds.mandriva.org/pub/mds/debian lenny main