To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Add/Remove Applications & krb5-libs
Thomas Cameron wrote:
I can use yum to install packages, but that's only online right? I can't see how to get them off my disk and then upgrade (if there's any real advantage in that). I've just put smart on my system to see what that's like.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Lithgow" <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:44 AM
Subject: Add/Remove Applications & krb5-libs
*when i try and use Add/Remove Applications it keeps reporting that it can't do anything until **krb5-libs is installed. That's part of **krb5-devel right? Well, I tried to install **krb5-devel but that gives the same response... can't install because **krb5-libs is missing.
This is stopping me managing my system. Any suggestions?
Duncan
Have you tried:
yum install krb5-libs krb5-devel
TC
Yum can be configured to use local filesystems. Just change the yum config file (look at /etc/yum.repos.d) to have a line like this in it:
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/fedora/core/updates/3/i386
However, in your case I would grab these files off your installation CDs and install from there. Copy both files to someplace like /tmp and then run the command rpm -Uvh /tmp/krb5* and see if that does it.
I don't understand why something so central to a machines smooth running as keeping up-to-date is plastered by so many different programmes - and different approaches by different linux distros. What's up with that? Is there a history of linux lesson out there that I've missed?
Duncan
Yum is simply a front-end to rpm. It's a very intelligent front-end, understanding how to deal with dependencies and the like, but all those tools (apt, yum, smart, etc.) are really just tools to make the rpm command a little easier to use.
Thomas
