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Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux on fresh install of CentOS 5.3 / RHEL 5.3

Prior to installation Parallels Control Panel for Linux on the mentioned operations system please check if the system has rpm user and rpm usergroup:

You need to create this user and appropriate usergroup. To do so please follow next steps:

Log as root to your PPCPL box

Type the following commands:

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 37 rpm > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/sbin/useradd -r -d /var/lib/rpm -u 37 -g 37 rpm -s /sbin/nologin > /dev/null 2>&1

After adding the rpm user and rpm usergroup you can proceed with the Parallels Pro Control Panel installation.

Reference : http://parallels.com/