Add/Remove Applications & krb5-libs

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan Lithgow" <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Add/Remove Applications & krb5-libs


> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Lithgow" 
>> <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk>
>> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:44 AM
>> Subject: Add/Remove Applications & krb5-libs
>>
>>
>>> *when i try and use Add/Remove Applications it keeps reporting that it 
>>> can't do anything until **krb5-libs is installed. That's part of 
>>> **krb5-devel right? Well, I tried to install **krb5-devel but that gives 
>>> the same response... can't install because **krb5-libs is missing.
>>>
>>> This is stopping me managing my system. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Duncan
>>
>>
>> Have you tried:
>>
>> yum install krb5-libs krb5-devel
>>
>> TC
>>
> I can use yum to install packages, but that's only online right? I can't 
> see how to get them off my disk and then upgrade (if there's any real 
> advantage in that). I've just put smart on my system to see what that's 
> like.

Yum can be configured to use local filesystems.  Just change the yum config 
file (look at /etc/yum.repos.d) to have a line like this in it:

baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/fedora/core/updates/3/i386

However, in your case I would grab these files off your installation CDs and 
install from there.  Copy both files to someplace like /tmp and then run the 
command rpm -Uvh /tmp/krb5* and see if that does it.

> I don't understand why something so central to a machines smooth running 
> as keeping up-to-date is plastered by so many different programmes - and 
> different approaches by different linux distros. What's up with that? Is 
> there a history of linux lesson out there that I've missed?
>
> Duncan

Yum is simply a front-end to rpm.  It's a very intelligent front-end, 
understanding how to deal with dependencies and the like, but all those 
tools (apt, yum, smart, etc.) are really just tools to make the rpm command 
a little easier to use.

Thomas