On 12/26/2011 05:33 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>      I don't know how to select a particular mirror, and still don't see 
> why what you did doesn't force installation of ntfs-3g.  Perhaps ntfs-3g 
> isn't being installed because yum decides there's a good enough version of 
> ntfs-3g already installed.  'rpm -q ntfs-3g' should show whether the 
> package is already installed.
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]$ rpm -q ntfs-3g
package ntfs-3g is not installed


> If it is, try removing it.  Or maybe you
> have an incorrect version of a yum-related package.  Here's what I get 
> from 'rpm -qa|grep yum':
> 
> yum-3.2.22-37.sl.noarch
> yum-utils-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
> yum-autoupdate-1.1-2.SL.noarch
> yum-changelog-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
> yum-priorities-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
> yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
> yum-downloadonly-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.i386
> yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.sl5.1.noarch
> yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch
> yum-protectbase-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch
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]$ rpm -qa|grep yum|sort
yum-3.2.22-26.sl
yum-aliases-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-autoupdate-1-1.SL
yum-changelog-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-conf-55-1.SL
yum-conf-epel-5-1
yum-cron-0.6-3.el5
yum-downloadonly-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-filter-data-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-keys-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-kmod-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-list-data-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-merge-conf-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5
yum-priorities-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-protectbase-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-protect-packages-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-15.el5
yum-security-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-tmprepo-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-tsflags-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-updateonboot-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.sl
yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-utils-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-verify-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yum-versionlock-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
yumex-2.0.3-1.0.el5
]$

which show an interesting yum difference.

you have                         i have
 sl5                              sl5.1.
 yum-3.2.22-37.sl.noarch          yum-3.2.22-26.sl
 yum-utils-1.1.16-16.el5.noarch   yum-utils-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
 yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch        yum-conf-55-1.SL
                                  yum-conf-epel-5-1

are you running a test/rolling release?

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after playing for a long while, i decided to erase old testdisk
to see what would happen.

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yum -y install ntfs-3g

 Installing:
   ntfs-3g   i386   2:2011.4.12-5.el5   epel   319 k

 Installed:
  ntfs-3g.i386 2:2011.4.12-5.el5
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yum -y install testdisk

  Installing:
    testdisk  i386  6.12-1.el5           epel   531 k

  Installed:
    testdisk.i386 0:6.12-1.el5
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so, all seems well again. i hope. :-)

as for why all the problems before, they are now behind and i will
not wonder as to why. will be interesting to see how it goes when
they update. tho i hope to be in  6.x before then. 8-D


i thank you very much for your time, help and advise.


later.
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peace out.

tc.hago,

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