Matteo,

Kill off the existing yum.

-Connie Sieh

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matteo Alfonsi wrote:

> Hi to all,
> I'm installing ROOT analysis program on a machine with Fermilab SL v. 
> 3.0.3 . I cannot install it because the package "X11-devel" is not
> installed.
> 
> So i tried to install this package using the visual tool "Add/Remove
> package" included in distribution. I guess that it is in the "X11
> Develepment" package group, but i cannot install it because there are some
> missing dependancies that cannot be found (isn't strange that there are
> packages without their dependancies?!?!?).
> 
> So i looked for the RPMs present in the installation CDs and i found (in
> the 2nd CD):
> 
> XFree86-devel-4.3.0-68.EL.i386.rpm
> 
> The problem is that the installed X11 version is 4.3.0-81, i.e. it is
> newer that the one on the installation CDs (and also using command line
> "rpm" fails because of missing dependances or newer versions), so i guess
> that there a sort of "automatic update tool" on the distribution.
> 
> I discovered that this tool is "yum", in fact there is always a cron
> process running it.
> 
> In the How To of the SL site, i found instructions about using this "yum",
> but i cannot execute on a shell "yum" because there is already another
> "running yum" in background.
> 
> How can i add this "X11-devel" package and all its required dependances?
> Consider that i'm not the pc owner, so all i do must be safe.
> 
> I thank you in advance
> 
> Matteo Alfonsi
>