[rhn-users] Installing a package

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Christopher L. Barnard
<cbarnard at rush.edu> wrote:
> I think this is a trivial problem...
>
> On a server that has gcc installed (also a fairly elderly RH3 server)
>
> asitest:~$ rpm --query --file /usr/bin/cc
> gcc-3.2.3-59
>
> But on this server where I need to install gcc,
> [root at webdev] /root # up2date --install gcc-3.2.3-59
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> gcc-3.2.3-59
>

up2date does not like version numbers.. and gives cryptic answers when
it doesn't find stuff. First of all see if oyu have it in any channels

up2date --showall | grep gcc

if it doesn't show up.. look on RHN to see that you have the box
registered with the appropriate RHEL-3/4 channels it needs.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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