On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Barry L. Kline wrote:
> I have an interesting chicken-and-egg problem that I hope someone can help me
> out of.
>
> I have a machine on which I originally loaded White Box. I subsequenty
> converted to CentOS using the instructions found numerous times in the group
> -- e.g. get the redhat-package RPM (thus changing /etc/redhat-release), then
> configuring yum and then yum -y upgrade.
>
> Everything has been going fine... that is until I tried installing the
> rpm-build package. Now I'm getting the message:
>
> [root@intranet root]# yum install rpm-build
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons
> Server: CentOS-3.3 - Base
> Server: CentOS-3.3 - Extras
> Server: CentOS-3.3 - Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Package rpm-build needs rpm = 4.2.3-10, this is not available.
>
> Which I assume is caused by my version of rpm: rpm-4.2.3-10.WB1
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to convert RPM packages and, of course, I can't
> simly rpm -e rpm and then use the erased package to install itself. I've
> tried a simple yum --download-only ... but the dependency check still
> occurs.
>
> Any thoughts on what to try next?
rpm -Uhv --oldpackage /
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm /
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-libs-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm /
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-python-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm
+ add any others that are dependencies - rg rpm-devel
Should work.
Regards
Lance
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