[ILUG] rpm

[O'Flanagan Justine]

Thanks Conor.  Unfortunately the box I'm using doesn't have a direct
connection to the internet, so I'm downloading the rpms individually onto a
PC and working from there. Antiquated I know!

Justine

-----Original Message-----
From: Conor Wynne [mailto:conor at discuskeeping.com] 
Sent: 01 September 2006 16:46
To: Conor Wynne; O'Flanagan Justine; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] rpm

I'm slow today :

You should use up2date -f packagename (without the revision numbers or .rpm)
To get those you mentioned below.

Conor


On 01/09/2006 16:33, "Conor Wynne" <conor at discuskeeping.com> wrote:

> On 01/09/2006 14:44, "O'Flanagan Justine"
> <Justine.O'Flanagan at ie.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all
>> 
>> I'm an Oracle DBA trying to administer an ancient Linux box and get it up
to
>> speed to cope with some of the newer Oracle software.  I'm not very au
fait
>> with Linux and would appreciate your advice.
>> 
>> The Oracle installer has advised me that a number of rpm packages on my
>> Linux system (kernel 2.4.9-e3.smp which I think is 7.2 AS running on
Intel
>> i686 architecture) need to be updated.  So I faithfully go out to
>> rpmfind.net and get some of the required packages.
>> 
>> I have been trying to run rpm -i, rpm -U, rpm --freshen followed by
package
>> name, but when I query back the package version number, it simply remains
>> unchanged. Worse, I de-installed one package, then tried a new install of
>> it, and now it shows "not installed" (please see example below).
>> 
>> What should I be doing to get these things upgraded?
> 
> Its a rhel box, so just run
> up2date -u ; up2date -f kernel-smp
> 
> That gold release kernel is really bad. All sorts of bugs long fixed.
> 
> You need to check on metalink.oracle.com for the
> minimum/maximum supported kernel.
> If memory serves, its 2.4.9-e.62smp.
>  
>> Thanks a million
>> Justine
>> 
>> Eg:
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
(%{ARCH})\n'
>> pdksh 
>> pdksh-5.2.14-13 (i386)
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ev pdksh
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
(%{ARCH})\n'
>> pdksh 
>> package pdksh is not installed
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# ls -alrt pdksh*.rpm
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       494256 Aug 31 10:47
>> pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rp
>> m
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ivh pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rpm
>>    1:pdksh                  ###########################################
>> [100%]
>> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
(%{ARCH})\n'
>> pdksh 
>> package pdksh is not installed
> 
> No worries
> Conor.
>