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I needed to install cpanel inside of one of my Cen­tos 5.1 domU. The cen­tos install was boot­strapped by the default rinse con­fig­u­ra­tion (see xen-tools with my patch that you can see from a pre­vi­ous post). If you fol­low the install docs you will have tried to unin­stall openl­dap etc .…

I can tell you from expe­ri­ence don’t even try. The install docs are not that great. All you need to do (if you have boot­strapped with rinse) is install a few pack­ages so that the cpanel installer can com­plete suc­cess­fully. I had to install tar, gzip, wget, and perl. The error that I got when first try­ing to install was related to uncom­press­ing. I con­tacted Cpanel about the issue and one of their techs logged into my vm to see what was going on. All we did was install the above pack­ages then run the installer. We did not remove any other pack­ages, and I have yet to have an issue (granted its been hours, and it is cpanel, so I expect some­thing to rear its ugly head). But if any­one else is try­ing to get cpanel installed on a fresh xen-create-image with rinse and cen­tos 5.1 is hav­ing issues try installing the above pack­ages before doing any­thing else to your sys­tem and see how you fair.