fc5t2 - no selected packages - rpm fails / not yum(my)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Sat Jan 21 08:15:55 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:

> On a low resource notebook, during gui installation all packages were 
> unselected (including "base system"). The install completes, and 
> reboots, with text only login as expected. [used about 390MB of disk 
> space, 720MB free.]
>
> 1. #yum
>  command not found
> ie, not installed. Including yum would make for much easier dep 
> resolution as you add the particular packages that you want to the 
> minimal install. How much bigger would absolute minimum be if yum (and 
> :. dependencies) were included when no packages groups are selected ?
>
> Perhaps a group called "base operating system" (that can't be 
> unselected - it is the absolute minimum requirement for a booting 
> kernel) with the following options:
> rpm  rpm-libs  yum  mc  ftp  ssh  slocate
> would be appreciated by similar minded folks ?

Needs a bugzilla report.

>
> 2. #rpm
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.4.so: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> #ls -l /usr/lib/librp*
>   No such file or directory.
> #ls -l /bin/rpm
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rpm rpm 83732 Jan 10 02:20 /bin/rpm
>
> manually copying on librpm-4.4.so, then librpmdb-4.4.so, then 
> librpmio-4.4.so, then librpmbuild-4.4.so from a FC4 system has got rpm 
> operating.
>
>  # rpm -qa|grep rpm
> rpm-4.4.2-12
> but
> doesn't rpm need rpm-libs ?
>
> Without a working rpm, much harder to put packages on... Is this known 
> or needs bz'ing ?
>
I saw someone complain and I dont think a bug is filed yet. Check and 
file against anaconda for both these issues.


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Rahul 

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