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 > > > > > >