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Make chef-server, chef-solo, and chef-client easier to install
I could not get chef-server installed on my CentOS server using any of the info from your wiki. After 2 days of trying i finally gave up and had to go to a 3rd party rpm. From there I had chef server installed in about 15 minutes.
http://blog.frameos.org/2011/04/29/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-centos-5-rhel-5/
If some guy on some website can make it that easy why can’t you guys? Doesn’t have to be an rpm. It could be a bootstrap cookbook or a script. I know your project is more oriented towards ubuntu but I much prefer to work with CentOS and so do a lot of other people.
I did manage to get your chef-client bootstrap procedure working but even that was much more difficult than I believe it needs to be.

Hello!
We’re working on shipping a full stack installation of the Chef Server with all the components above libc bundled as a single native package for supported platforms. This will be built using the “omnibus” project.
https://github.com/opscode/omnibus
Thank you for using Chef!
-joshua
The Omnibus client installer has been built and is available at:
http://www.opscode.com/chef/install
The Omnibus Server should be available within a couple of months.