[WBEL-users] YUM Questions
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I finally got WBEL3 installed on two machines. And I was able to use the "YUM UPDATE" command to bring all the installed RPMs up to date. Now I want to start installing a few additional packages, such as SWAT. I started having some problems early on with failovers and seem to have that mostly resolved after locating some forums where they suggested some updates to the YUM config file. Now I am trying to get a group list. I am running the command "yum grouplist". It executes for some time. The I get the following messages: Gathering header information files(s) from server(s) Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Getting groups from servers No groups provided or accessabel on any server Exiting What is keeping the grouplist from working properly? Now a more generic question about yum and rpm's in general. I wanted to install the latest version of yum (I have v2.2). I couldn't figure out how to tell yum to install a newer version of software. It just appears to install the latest release at the same version level. So I downloaded yum v2.4 and tried to install using rpm. A prereq for yum v2.4 is python v2.3. So I downloaded the rpm for python v2.3 and attempted to install it using rpm. It won't install because there is a ton of other software that requires python to be at the current version (v2.2). How do you manage these upgrades? I want to tell YUM/RPM to bring some of my software up to more current versions yet it means a vast set of updates to other software. That's ok with me but I can't see a way to tell yum just to take care of it all. Is there an easy answer to this? I have been searching the message boards but so far haven't been able to find an answer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Glenn Puckett Lexington, KY _______________________________________________ Whitebox-users mailing list [email protected] http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users