redhat-config-packages missing
Suman Chakrabarti
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Sep 19 10:20:01 2003
Thanks.
But now that I've got it running, I'm not sure I see the use for it.
yum can tell me what's installed, and list available packages.
redhat-config-packages looks to only show the list of installed
packages from the original install. It doesn't look to be able to
list and download available packages not in the original
distribution. Or am I wrong?
A colleague is learning Red Hat on his laptop now. He can run
redhat-config-packages, but he doesn't yet know the command that's
equivalent to 'yum' on RH9. Obviously rpm at the command line should
work, but he hasn't yet figured out how to inquire available packages
with it. He thought this package manager would download a graphical
listing ... but it doesn't. That's what I was hoping to see also.
SC
>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 R=F6der <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 redh=
at
>>>>>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/re=
dhat-config-packages-1.1.8-1.noarch.rpm
>>>>>
>>>>>2. Install the required packages: The rpm command will tell you which o=
nes
>>>>>are missing on my system it was: libxml2-phyton and another one. It doe=
s
>>>>>also require rpm-phyton >=3D4.2-0.61 which is not yet available as a pa=
ckage
>>>>>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 =3D
>>>>>"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=
)
>>>
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Suman Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Thermal / Fluids / Plasma Propulsion Modeling Engineer (& Kitchen Sink)
TD40 / Propulsion Research Center <Suman.Chakrabarti@nasa.gov>
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center AIM/iChat: <scstr@mac.com>
Huntsville, AL 35812
Schedule: <webcal://ical.mac.com/scstr/Work.ics>
TD40 is a part of the Space Transportation Directorate at NASA MSFC
Any opinion expressed is my own and not that of NASA
"If it's Sumanly possible, it'll be done."