Chris Tooley wrote:
Hi All, first of all, thanks for the help.
If you just want to switch a running system, I *think* this would be all
you need to do.
1 - Point Yum to look at SL yum repositories
1a - rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/*repo
(a bit drastic, but if you want to go slow, just move everything)
1b (SL4) - rpm -Uvh
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
Done.
2 - Replace the following packages:
yum (from centos) -> yum (from SL)
centos-release -> sl-release
centos-release-notes -> sl-release-notes (SL5 Only)
I cannot seem to install yum: I get dependency errors:
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# rpm -i yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch.rpm
warning: yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
82fd17b2
error: Failed dependencies:
python-elementtree is needed by yum-2.4.3-10.SL
urlgrabber is needed by yum-2.4.3-10.SL
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So I attempt to follow the dependency trail, and end up stalled at:
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# rpm -i yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch.rpm python-2.3.4-14.7.el4.i386.rpm
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm
warning: yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
82fd17b2
warning: python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
key ID a7048f8d
error: Failed dependencies:
libdb-4.2.so is needed by python-2.3.4-14.7.el4
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As far as I can tell, libdb-4.2 is provided by the package compat-db in
SL5, however, the latest version in SL4 is < 4.2... (I am attempting to
convert to SL4) Am I missing something here?
Previously I had converted this system from EL4 to Centos4 - might this
have something to do with it?
Thanks again!
-Chris
Yes. EL4 never had yum, or the libraries for yum.
Centos 4 had yum, so I had assumed that you had yum installed already.
Right at the moment I don't have time to track down which packages,
maybe someone else had the list of packages needed for yum to be
installed on a EL4 machine?
Troy
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