question regarding redhat-* applets (redhat-logviewer/redhat-config-services etc)

Paul Bender pbender at qualcomm.com
Sat Apr 3 15:19:36 UTC 2004


The redhat-* utilities have been renamed to system-* utilities. For 
example, redhat-config-services is now system-config-services. If you 
use rpm to upgrade to the system-config-services rpm, it will remove the 
redhat-config-services rpm.

Siddharth Toshniwal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need some help regarding the redhat applets that feature under
> "Applications -> System Tools". When I upgraded from Redhat 9
> to Fedora Core 1 (and recently to Fedora Core 2) using up2date,
> I got python2.3 as one of the dependancies for some packages.
> I've installed that (and also have python2.2 on my system).
> 
> The problem is that the applets in question require python2.2
> and do not work with the latest python libs since the API version
> is different or because some other add-on package has got
> uninstalled when I got the latest rh rpms.
> 
> Can you please tell me where can I get the RPM upgrades for
> these utilities so that they function with python 2.3? Or are these
> binaries given in some package for the Fedora distribution?
> As of now, I've re-compiled some of these packages from source
> so that they use python2.3, but there are too many of these (!)
> So, is there a better way out?
> 
> thanks,
> Siddharth.
> 





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