On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 19:35 +0100, Bob Brennan wrote: > On 4/15/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 18:28 +0100, Bob Brennan wrote: > > > On 4/15/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Bob Brennan wrote: > > > > >>Wow, that is a very old ClamAV version. You should really update > > > > >>quickly. 0.83 is current. I see Fedora Extras you are using (you posted > > > > >>that in the other reply) only has the very old 0.71 version. I highly > > > > >>recommend to either use the repository I am using or Dag's. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I had already tried that and hit a dependency loop that is beyond my > > > > > newbie-ness. Specifically: > > > > > > > > > > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/ > > > > > clamav-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm needed clamav-db > > > > > clamav-db-0.83-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm needs data(clamav) > > > > > clamd-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm needs clamav > > > > > loop... > > > > > > > > Install them all at the same time: > > > > > > > > # rpm -Uvh clam*.rpm > > > > > > > > This bundles all the packages into the same transaction, where they are > > > > able to resolve each other's dependencies. > > > > > > # rpm -Uvh clam*.rpm > > > # error: File not found by glob: clam*.rpm > > > > > > I'm smart enough to know I either need to have added dag's repository > > > (and key?) somewhere or have already downloaded the rpm files > > > somewhere. But not smart enough to know where or how. Or where to find > > > out, sorry. > > > > How did you provoke your computer into telling you about the dependency > > loop? > > I go to (using firefox's file un-roller) > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/ > click on > clamav-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > which tries to install but needs clamav-db > so I click on > clamav-db-0.83-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm > which reports it needs data(clamav) > which I found elsewhere and installed but it doesn't matter > then I tried > clamd-0.83-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm > which needs clamav which was the first thing I tried to install! > > I tried the same thing at the clamav site, also stuck on dependencies. > yum from the fc3-extras is the only thng I could make work but as you > said it is out-of-date and doesn't include freshclam. > > Assume I have just enough knowledge/experience to get myself into > trouble but not enough to get out... :-) > Why not just download all 3 files from dag, then use the rpm command given above?. > bob >
