[rhn-users] Installing a package

[Christopher L. Barnard]

Never mind.  The RHN site was having problems this morning.  Everything
is working correctly now.

Christopher

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:30 -0500, Christopher L. Barnard wrote:
> nope.  From an up2date --showall I see that I needed to add "i386" to
> the end of the rpm name...
> 
> [root at webdev] /root # up2date --showall | grep gcc
> [...]
> gcc-3.2.3-59.i386
> [...]
> 
> However, I still cannot add it...
> 
> [root at webdev] /root # up2date --install gcc-3.2.3-59.i386
> 
> 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.i386
> [root at webdev] /root # 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:45 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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