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 >