How to install HAproxy v1.8.9 on OpenSUSE leap 15.0

Download the archive format of HAProxy 1.8.9 with the help of wget command

linuxhelp1:~ # wget https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/src/haproxy-1.8.9.tar.gz
--2018-06-15 08:33:14--  https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/src/haproxy-1.8.9.tar.gz
Resolving www.haproxy.org (www.haproxy.org)... 51.15.8.218
Connecting to www.haproxy.org (www.haproxy.org)|51.15.8.218|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2057051 (2.0M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘ haproxy-1.8.9.tar.gz’ 
haproxy-1.8.9.tar.g 100%[===================> ]   1.96M   144KB/s    in 13s     
2018-06-15 08:33:30 (151 KB/s) - ‘ haproxy-1.8.9.tar.gz’  saved [2057051/2057051]

After downloading it extract it by,

linuxhelp1:~ # tar -zxf haproxy-1.8.9.tar.gz

Move inside the extracted directory

linuxhelp1:~ # cd haproxy-1.8.9/

Compile the program for your system.

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # make TARGET=linux2628
gcc -Iinclude -Iebtree -Wall  -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fwrapv -fno-strict-overflow -Wno-format-truncation  -Wno-null-dereference -Wno-unused-label       -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_SPLICE -DTPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_TPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_CRYPT -DENABLE_POLL -DENABLE_EPOLL -DUSE_CPU_AFFINITY -DASSUME_SPLICE_WORKS -DUSE_ACCEPT4 -DNETFILTER -DUSE_THREAD -DUSE_SYSCALL_FUTEX  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_VERSION=" 1.8.9-83616ec"  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_DATE=" 2018/05/18"  -c -o src/ev_poll.o src/ev_poll.c
gcc -Iinclude -Iebtree -Wall  -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fwrapv -fno-strict-overflow -Wno-format-truncation  -Wno-null-dereference -Wno-unused-label       -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_SPLICE -DTPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_TPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_CRYPT -DENABLE_POLL -DENABLE_EPOLL -DUSE_CPU_AFFINITY -DASSUME_SPLICE_WORKS -DUSE_ACCEPT4 -DNETFILTER -DUSE_THREAD -DUSE_SYSCALL_FUTEX  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_VERSION=" 1.8.9-83616ec"  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_DATE=" 2018/05/18"  -c -o src/ev_epoll.o src/ev_epoll.c
gcc -Iinclude -Iebtree -Wall  -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fwrapv -fno-strict-overflow -Wno-format-truncation  -Wno-null-dereference -Wno-unused-label       -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_SPLICE -DTPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_LINUX_TPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_CRYPT -DENABLE_POLL -DENABLE_EPOLL -DUSE_CPU_AFFINITY -DASSUME_SPLICE_WORKS -DUSE_ACCEPT4 -DNETFILTER -DUSE_THREAD -DUSE_SYSCALL_FUTEX  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_VERSION=" 1.8.9-83616ec"  -DCONFIG_HAPROXY_DATE=" 2018/05/18"  -c -o ebtree/ebtree.o ebtree/ebtree.c
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src/stats.o src/mux_h2.o src/checks.o src/haproxy.o src/log.o src/dns.o src/peers.o src/standard.o src/sample.o src/cli.o src/stream_interface.o src/proto_tcp.o src/backend.o src/proxy.o src/tcp_rules.o src/listener.o src/flt_http_comp.o src/pattern.o src/cache.o src/filters.o src/vars.o src/acl.o src/payload.o src/connection.o src/raw_sock.o src/proto_uxst.o src/flt_trace.o src/session.o src/ev_select.o src/channel.o src/task.o src/queue.o src/applet.o src/map.o src/frontend.o src/freq_ctr.o src/lb_fwlc.o src/mux_pt.o src/auth.o src/fd.o src/hpack-dec.o src/memory.o src/lb_fwrr.o src/lb_chash.o src/lb_fas.o src/hathreads.o src/chunk.o src/lb_map.o src/xxhash.o src/regex.o src/shctx.o src/buffer.o src/action.o src/h1.o src/compression.o src/pipe.o src/namespace.o src/sha1.o src/hpack-tbl.o src/hpack-enc.o src/uri_auth.o src/time.o src/proto_udp.o src/arg.o src/signal.o src/protocol.o src/lru.o src/hdr_idx.o src/hpack-huff.o src/mailers.o src/h2.o src/base64.o src/hash.o   -lcrypt -ldl &ndash lpthread
finally, install HAProxy
linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # make install
install -d " /usr/local/sbin" 
install haproxy  " /usr/local/sbin" 
install -d " /usr/local/share/man" /man1
install -m 644 doc/haproxy.1 " /usr/local/share/man" /man1
install -d " /usr/local/doc/haproxy" 
for x in WURFL-device-detection SPOE proxy-protocol peers-v2.0 peers network-namespaces netscaler-client-ip-insertion-protocol management lua linux-syn-cookies intro DeviceAtlas-device-detection cookie-options configuration close-options architecture 51Degrees-device-detection  do 
    install -m 644 doc/$x.txt " /usr/local/doc/haproxy"    
done

Add the following directories and the statistics file for HAProxy records.

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 #  mkdir -p /etc/haproxy
linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # mkdir -p /var/lib/haproxy 
linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # touch /var/lib/haproxy/stats

Create a symbolic link for the binary to allow you to run HAProxy commands as a normal user.

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # ln -s /usr/local/sbin/haproxy /usr/sbin/haproxy

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # cp ~/haproxy-1.8.9/examples/haproxy.init /etc/init.d/haproxy
linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # chmod 755 /etc/init.d/haproxy
linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # systemctl daemon-reload

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # chkconfig haproxy on

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # useradd -r haproxy

linuxhelp1:~/haproxy-1.8.9 # haproxy -v
HA-Proxy version 1.8.9-83616ec 2018/05/18
Copyright 2000-2018 Willy Tarreau < willy@haproxy.org>