RabbitMQ install issue on Centos 5.5

Question

I\'ve been trying to get rabbitmq-server-2.4.0 up and running on Centos 5.5 on an Amazon AWS instance.

My instance uses the following kernel: 2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.2

Answer 1

For people in the future finding this answer, the RabbitMQ site itself has a potential answer for you:

Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat)

Erlang on RHEL 5 (and CentOS 5)

Due to the EPEL package update policy, EPEL 5 contains Erlang version R12B-5, which is relatively old. rabbitmq-server supports R12B-5, but performance may be lower than for more recent Erlang versions, and certain non-core features are not supported (SSL support, HTTP-based plugins including the management plugin). Therefore, we recommend that you install the most recent stable version of Erlang. The easiest way to do this is to use a package repository provided for this purpose by the owner of the EPEL Erlang package. Enable it by invoking (as root):

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-erlang.repo http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/peter/erlang/epel-erlang.repo

and then install or update erlang with yum install erlang.