PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:13:46 +0000
Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 21 December 2008 22:00:16 DB wrote:
> >
> > [Dave at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi pygpgme
> > package pygpgme is not installed
> > [Dave at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi python-iniparse
> > package python-iniparse is not installed
> > [Dave at localhost ~]$
> >
> > Is there a way to tell rpm to go off and search a specific repo?  

no. Rpm only acts on specific packages. 

> If they are not installed 'yum install packagename' should pull them
> in - and you can list both packages in one command.

Except that he is trying to install yum. ;) 

> > I
> > tried rpm --whatprovides yum but that evidently is not acceptable!  
> 
> It's not apparent from the help file, but I think the command is 'rpm
> -q whatprovides ....' but I don't think that would have helped in
> this situation. I'd try
> 
> yum install pygpgme python-iniparse yum

No yum installed there for him. ;) 

Dave: Try the following: 

rpm -ivh
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey//yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch.rpm
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os//Packages/pygpgme-0.1-8.fc9.i386.rpm 
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os//Packages/python-iniparse-0.2.3-3.fc9.noarch.rpm

All on one big long line. ;) 
Not sure if there are further deps, but hopefully that will get yum installed for you. 

kevin
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