cPanel installation error : Uncompressing Cpanel & WHM Installer.Extraction failed

At once I faced below error while cPanel installation on

root@server>_ /home# sh latest Creating directory installd Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Cpanel & WHM Installer.Extraction failed. Terminated root@server>_ /home#

This problem normally occurs when you are trying to install cPanel onto a server which is not running a base installation of the operating system. To fix this, you can run the following command, however if you are trying to install this on a server which already has data which you don’t have backed up, then you should back it up first.
This command will turn your operating system into the base installation:

yum groupinstall base -y

After running above command you can start installation and it should go smoothly :)

Official requirements for cPanel installation

Hardware Requirements

Component	Minimum Requirement
Processor	266 MHz processor
Memory	512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended when hosting many accounts)
Disk Space	10GB hard disk More Details

yum failed 6 times. Cannot continue!

If You get below error while cPanel installation :
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2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): Error: Missing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 is needed by package 30:bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64 (installed)
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): package-cleanup --dupes
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (ERROR): - ssystem [EXIT_CODE] '/usr/bin/yum' exited with 1 (ignored)
2012-06-05 08:13:34 256 (DEBUG): - ssystem [END]
2012-06-05 08:13:34 260 (FATAL): yum failed 6 times. Cannot continue!
Removing /root/installer.lock

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Then the resolution is :

rpm -e --nodeps bind-chroot
rpm -e --nodeps bind
yum install bind

Again run sh latest

:)

cPanel Installation

CPanel installation is quite easy:

1) Login to the server with root access

2) wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest

3)sh latest

After this slow down your back on chair comfortably as the installation will take 30-45 min. You can watach the installation if any error occured.