ok, now i am really embarrassed! i was given the cd's and assumed they were labeled correctly! well, i joined the list to learn more about fc in general as well as expand my RH experience. i guess i will need to stop asking for help from this list, but i am going to hang on as i am learning a lot anyway. thx again for exposing my problems... jackc... On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 15:33 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > jackc wrote: > [snip] > >> What is the output of "rpm -qi python". > >> > > > > Name : python Relocations: (not > > relocatable) Version : 2.3.4 Vendor: Red > > Hat, Inc. > > Release : 14 Build Date: Thu 04 Nov 2004 > > 11:11:06 AM PST > > Install Date: Wed 21 Dec 2005 02:58:21 PM PST Build Host: > > tweety.build.redhat.com > [snip] > > In addition to being a differnet version, the FC4 python RPM is built on > "decompose.build.redhat.com", not "tweety.build.redhat.com". It is also > signed with a different key. This is not a FC4 python RPM. > > [snip] > >> rpm -q --provides redhat-release > > config(redhat-release) = 4ES-2 redhat-release = 4ES-2 > > > > what does this translate to? > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES, not Fedora Core 4. > > Actually because my command was wrong, FC4 doesn't find anything. The > command should be "rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release". On a FC4 system > it is provided by "fedora-release-4-2". > > -- > William Hooper > -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx
