where is uudecode in RHEL6 Beta?

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Wed Jul 7 20:06:41 UTC 2010


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

?

> > Ray




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