Stargazer wrote:
OK, since rpm says yum is not installed, it must be that your machine has an old version installed that is not listed in the rpm database {and it's requirement are not met eg glibc or python - whatever}.David Timms wrote:Not sure about the segmentation fault. Is the dvd the full fedora core 6 or one of the pre-release tests ?Full oneI reckon give: # rpm -qa|grep -E 'rpm|yum|kernel|python|fedora'|sort {for some info}[root@tiger ~]# rpm -qa|grep -E 'rpm|yum|kernel|python|fedora'|sort dbus-python-0.70-6 fedora-logos-6.0.6-1.fc6 fedora-release-6-4 fedora-release-notes-6-3 gnome-python2-gconf-2.16.0-1.fc6 gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.14.2-4.fc6 kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.1 libxslt-python-1.1.17-1.1 python-2.4.3-18.fc6 python-devel-2.4.3-18.fc6 redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-6 rpm-4.4.2-32 rpm-build-4.4.2-32 rpm-devel-4.4.2-32 rpm-libs-4.4.2-32 [root@tiger ~]# yum update rpm rpm-python Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 305 kB 00:02 ################################################## 1055/1055 Could not find update match for rpm-python Could not find update match for rpm No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion [root@tiger ~]# yum update yum yum-metadata-parser Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Could not find update match for yum Could not find update match for yum-metadata-parser No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
# yum --version Loading "installonlyn" plugin 3.0.1 # cd to/Ur/mounted/dvd/Fedora/RPMS # rpm -Uvh yum-3* yum-met*If we can get yum to be properly installed then the rest of the packages should be update/installed easily by using a working yum. However, yum needs python, and the python you have installed might be too old, and then adding python would probably require a heap of other stuff.
If the above doesn't work, perhaps we should add --force to the above command.
If either of these work, do a few yum commands like yum check-update or yum list a* to see if yum is actually happy. If it is try small package groups at once. To speed things up, I think I would try to disable the extras and update repos and exclude eg openoffice*
# yum --exclude=openoffice* --disablerepo={update,extras} localinstall python-2 {tab} python-ele {tab} python-sql {tab} python-url {tab}
# yum update z*
and so on y* , x*, w* etc {avoid g* perhaps and l*}
# yum update kernel
DaveT.
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