Hi,
Thanks for the reply (and to your reply Ken The) Yes. It's a package for Enterprise Linux systems from Oracle. You are right that I could go and get the python-simplejson from Scientific Linux. This issue is also affecting another 3rd party package (ovm-template-config-3.0-71.el5.noarch.rpm also from Oracle) which wont be available from the Scientific repository so I would like to try and get a workaround sorted.

Like I said I had no problems installing this on the RHEL and OEL equivalents. The only difference I can see being in a minor difference in the version of python installed:

RHEL and OEL 6.3 :
python.x86_64                    2.6.6-29.el6_3.3

Scientific 6.3 :
python.x86_64                    2.6.6-29.el6_2.2

The output from "rpm -q --provides python | grep abi" on all 3 systems:

RHEL, OEL and Scientific 6.3 :
python(abi) = 2.6
python-abi = 2.6

This seems to imply that the installation should fail on all 3 systems as the package requires python(abi) = 2.4. Yet it succeeds on the non-Scientific Linux systems?!!? I have also tried the install using rpm.

Thanks,
Darren

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Sent: 04 April 2013 13:58
To: Reddick Darren (HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION CENTRE - X26)
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Subject: Re: Problems Installing python-simplejson

On 2013-04-04 10:58, Darren Reddick wrote:
> Hi,
> Having problems installing python-simplejson on Scientific Linux
> release 6.3
> (Carbon) x86_64.
> I get the following error message from "yum localinstall":
>
> Error: Package: python-simplejson-2.0.7-2.el5.x86_64
> (/python-simplejson-2.0.7-2.el5.x86_64)
>             Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
>             Installed: python-2.6.6-29.el6_2.2.x86_64
> (@anaconda-ScientificLinux-201208021154.x86_64)
>                 python(abi) = 2.6
>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
> This sounds like python-simplejson requires an older version of the
> python package to be installed.
>
> Yet i have had no problems installing this package on the equivalent
> Oracle Linux and Redhat distribution (6.3 x86_64) which both have very
> similar python versions installed - python-2.6.6-29.el6_3.3.x86_64.
>
> Is there any way to work around this?
> Also is there an easy way to query what specfifc version of
> python(abi) is installed on a system using rpm or yum?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>


Is there a reason for installing that particular version of simplejson?
Seeing as 2.0.9 is available in the sl repo...


To query what a pakage (e.g. python) provides, do:

   rpm -q --provides python

Pipe through grep or less or whatever if needed.


(apologies for double reply, somehow missed the "reply all" button)

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