Matteo,


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, 
Matteo Alfonsi wrote:

> 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

Kill all processes started by 1) that have yum in them.

> 
> 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?

Yes that is correct,  much easier than figuring out dependances manually.

-Connie Sieh
> 
> 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
> > > 
> > 
>