redhat-config-packages missing

[Jann Röder]

Sorry for my incomplete description. This was my first linux how-to. And 
I wouldn't call myself linux-knowledgeable.

Glad that it works for you now

Jann

Suman Chakrabarti wrote:
> Answered my own question again, showing that Jann is more knowledgeable=
 
> than I. :)
> 
> A newbie *can't* skip using --nodeps when using the rpm command below, =

> because it still wants rpm-python and so won't install. So Jann's 
> command is a "workaround" to access YDL's lower version, as he says.
> 
> I'll shut up now. :)
> 
>         SC
> 
> 
>> Answered my own question.
>>
>> Just run this command without "nodeps" to see what you need. You need =

>> "comps-extras".
>>
>> Then after downloading and installing those items (or using yum), you =

>> can run it with "nodeps" to install it.
>>
>> For newbies like me, it might be easier just to tell them to run
>>
>> rpm -ivh redhat-config-packages-(whatever version info ends the file 
>> name)
>>
>>         SC
>>
>>> There's something I don't understand about Jann's post below. I may 
>>> have been too simple
>>>
>>> I was able to download the package and execute
>>>
>>> rpm -ivh --nodeps redhat-config-packages
>>>
>>>
>>> This didn't check for dependencies and did install the package, which=
 
>>> failed to work because it didn't have required packages.
>>>
>>> How does the "rpm command tell you which packages are missing"? There=
 
>>> must be some other way of using "rpm" that isn't stated below?
>>>
>>>         SC
>>>
>>>> This is a repost of a message I posted:
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Missing redhat-config-packages package
>>>> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:59:03 +0200
>>>> From: Jann Röder <jann.roeder@web.de>
>>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>>> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, the package redhat-config-packages package is missing in on the
>>>> yellowdog linux FTP server and on the CDs. However you can use the 
>>>> redhat
>>>> package: That's how to do it:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Download the the redhat package. It's noarch so that's no problem=

>>>> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/current/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS=
/redhat-config-packages-1.1.8-1.noarch.rpm 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Install the required packages: The rpm command will tell you 
>>>> which ones
>>>> are missing on my system it was: libxml2-phyton and another one. It =

>>>> does
>>>> also require rpm-phyton >=4.2-0.61 which is not yet available as a=
 
>>>> package
>>>> for YDL at the moment. However it will work with the lower version 
>>>> which YDL
>>>> provides.
>>>>
>>>> 3. install the package: rpm -ivh --nodeps redhat-config-packages
>>>>
>>>> 4. open the file /usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py in your=

>>>> favourite text editor and change line 713 to read: self.packagesDir =
=
>>>> "YellowDog/RPMS"
>>>>
>>>> 5. Type redhat-config-packages & to run the utility
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Jann
>>>>
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>> -- 
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>> Thermal / Fluids / Plasma Propulsion Modeling Engineer    (& Kitchen 
>> Sink)
>>
>> TD40 / Propulsion Research Center        <Suman.Chakrabarti@nasa.gov>
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