Hi Connie Sieh,

Which one of the following process do i have to kill?
(result of "ps -fu root |grep yum")

1) /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

2) awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
        progname {?????   print progname ":\n"?????   progname="";????

3) /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -c /tmp/yum.temp.config 
        -t -e 0 -d 1 -y update

Then i should use "yum list" to get the list of installable package, find
inside the list the rpm of X11-devel and install it with "yum install
PACKAGE_NAME". Is it all right? Will dependances automatically installed?

Thank you again

Matteo Alfonsi


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:

> 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
> > 
>