where is uudecode in RHEL6 Beta?

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Wed Jul 7 20:11:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:06:41PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:57:19PM -0700, fred smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:44:55PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:35:21PM -0700, fred smith wrote:
> > > > I've dug thru every RPM in both the Workstation and Server ISO images
> > > > of RHEL6 beta2 and none of them contains a package containing uudecode.
> > > > 
> > > >     cd Packages
> > > >     for i in *.rpm; do rpm -qlp $i | grep uudecode; done 2>/dev/null
> > > > 
> > > > returns one emacs component and 3 man pages, but no binary.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there some OTHER tool that is now being shipped in place of uuencode/
> > > > uudecode? 
> > > > 
> > > > Clues appreciated.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Don't have a RHEL6 install handy, but try 'sharutils'.
> > 
> > Nope. there is no such package on either ISO image. that was my
> > first guess, since that's where it has traditionally been.
> 
> Hmm, what about doing a:
> 
>   yum provides \*uudecode
> 
> ?

I guess this would be redundant to what you've already tried really.
Didn't read closely enough.

I'm going to set up a RHEL6 box and check this out.  Perhaps uudecode
will be a candidate for EPEL6.

Ray




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