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As part of a planned expansion of the Enterprise Support for AlmaLinux product line, we will soon be adding minor versioning and authentication to our Essential Support and Extended Security Updates (ESU) repositories. This will have a minor impact on how existing customers access our software.
Essential Support Customers
Existing Essential Support customers will need to install our tuxcare-release package specific to the AlmaLinux version you are using and register your servers using our tuxctl utility, much like how ESU works now.
You should have already received an email with instructions describing how to access portal.tuxcare.com to manage your license keys and this link describing how to reconfigure your servers:
https://docs.tuxcare.com/enterprise-support-for-almalinux/#installing-tuxctl-essential-support
For most users, this is as simple as running these two commands as root, substituting in your AlmaLinux version (for example 8.10 or 9.4) and license key:
dnf -y install https://repo.tuxcare.com/tuxcare/tuxcare-release-latest-8.10.$(uname -i).rpm
Extended Security Updates (ESU) Customers
Existing Extended Security Updates customers already have access to the Essential Support repositories, so you will just have to download an updated tuxcare-release package to reconfigure those repositories to use your ESU token too.
This is as simple as running this as root:
dnf --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=tuxcare-base upgrade tuxcare-release
Closing Thoughts
New customers, or even fresh installations, won’t have to do anything as the latest tuxcare-release and tuxctl will simply use the new repository configuration.
For users of our new SaaS product on AWS, we can provide instructions for how to auto-register when you spin up an instance.
If you need more help, you can contact our technical support team 24/7/365 at https://tuxcare.com/support-portal/
