[ILUG] rpm

[John Allen]

On Friday 01 September 2006 16:50, O'Flanagan Justine wrote:
> 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!
>

Can you get it to go through a proxy?

If so you can usually configure the proxy via the http_proxy env var.

> 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.

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