[K12OSN] Frustration with RHEL6.1

[Jim Kinney]

You will need to instal again and select "customize now" on the screen where
you selected desktop install.  Once done, you have a file in /root called
anaconda.log which is a kickstart file for replicating that install.

OR... something is hoaed with yum in the repo files or network access to the
repos.
On Sep 4, 2011 5:27 PM, "Brian Fristensky" <bfristen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I just did a clean install of RHEL6.1 on my server. I did the standard
Desktop
> system
> install on an AMD64 workstation.
>
> Is it only me, but has anyone
> else had minimal luck installing anything on this platform? It seams like
> whenever I try to install software using yum or the GNOME graphical
installer,
> I get endless dependency errors.
>
> On recent versions of Fedora, yum seemed to always be able to find and
> install dependencies automatically. Right out of the box.
>
> This is all relevant to LTSP. I added to following file to
/etc/yum.repos.d
>
> [LTSP]
> name=Togami LTSP Testing Repo
> baseurl=http://mplug.org/~k12linux/rpm/el6/$basearch/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> gpgkey=http://www.dageek.co.uk/ltsp/RPM-GPG-KEY-DaGeek-LTSP
>
> and then tried yum install ltsp-server:
>
> ... skipping the list of packages to install...
>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: 1:python-imgcreate-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: pykickstart >= 0.96
> Error: Package: ltsp-server-5.2.17-1.el6.x86_64 (LTSP)
> Requires: perl(NetAddr::IP)
> Error: Package: 1:livecd-tools-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: syslinux
> Error: Package: 1:python-imgcreate-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: squashfs-tools
> Error: Package: 1:livecd-tools-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: pyparted
> Error: Package: 1:livecd-tools-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: isomd5sum
> Error: Package: ltsp-server-5.2.17-1.el6.x86_64 (LTSP)
> Requires: dhcp
> Error: Package: 1:livecd-tools-13.3-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
> Requires: /sbin/extlinux
> Error: Package: ltsp-server-5.2.17-1.el6.x86_64 (LTSP)
> Requires: tftp-server
> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
> As I've said, it's not just ltsp. It seems that the majority of the time,
when I try
> to install packages with yum, it fails to resolve dependency errors. I
have lots of
> repos in which yum can find things:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 808 Jan 25 2009 atrpms-bleeding.repo
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 748 Jan 25 2009 atrpms.repo
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 799 Jan 25 2009 atrpms-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 957 Oct 12 2010 epel.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1056 Oct 12 2010 epel-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 248 Aug 12 01:32 k12linux.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 172 Jun 21 17:13 ltsp.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 4 15:43 redhat.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 529 Apr 27 12:58 rhel-source.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1002 May 14 11:46 rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1062 May 14 11:46
rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1047 May 14 11:49 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1107 May 14 11:49
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
>
> but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
>
> One other point. As of RHEL6.1, numerous programs that always used to be
present
> in Fedora are now gone. These include
>
> Mozilla seamonkey
> VNC
> gFTP
> uudeview
> gkrell
> keychain
>
> others look very challenging to install, due to dependencies:
>
> nedit
> tgif
> ... and many others I have tried so far.
>
> I feel like I'm back in the early 2000's, in terms of the frustration with
what
> should be a polished, commercial Linux.
>
> Any bright ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
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