On Sunday 24 June 2012 16:48:31 Leonard den Ottolander did opine:
> Hello Gene,
>
> On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 12:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > There are no surviving el5 packages on the system, including in the
> > .repo files of yum.repos.d
> >
> > But if I fire up yumex, well over half the files presented say they
> > are el5 coming from rpmfusion,
>
> Those two statements seem contradictory. Did you actually query those
> packages to establish their origin?
>
> So you tell us you only have el6 repos enabled. Perhaps someone
> installed the offending packages manually or accidentally used the wrong
> repo before? Get rid of the offending ones and reinstall using the
> correct repo.
That 'someone' would likely be me, and no I didn't qi each package because
there are no *.el-5* packages now installed. These are the packages it is
showing me that I _could_ install, and nearly every blessed one of them has
a dependency on python-2.4. Why yumex is even showing me el5 files is a
puzzle I'm apparently not equipt to sort, it may as well be a basket of
rattlesnakes. You could probably say I'm getting too old for this at 77,
but I'm a retired broadcast CE, one who quit school at 14 and went out to
fix these newfangled things called tv's in the later '40's, and have had a
scope probe or four and a hot soldering iron handy ever since. Generally,
electronics holds no puzzles for me, and I've had a C.E.T. since '72, and a
1st phone since '61.
I see what someone meant when they said centos was a stripped mostly server
distro. Trying to nail kde and a working audio system to it reminds me of
trying to nail jelly to a tree, everything you try to install winds up
splattered on the floor.
So I've saved off my email corpus, and just burned a ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc
install cd, so by this time tomorrow I should have the same distro on all 4
machines here. Opencascade-libs, which supports all the cad design proggys
like freecad, heekscad/cnc, openscam and a few others seem to be only built
in .debs, so while I don't exactly love how ubuntu handles networking or
its gui, once you get it configured, it Just Works(TM), including nfs
shares, something I had a heck of a time making work on pclos. With the
same config files installed here on centos6, nfs is dead, no hits, no runs
& no errors logged.
> Regards,
> Leonard.
Thanks for the reply Leonard, but I don't think centos and I will be able
to be friends when yum is so easily confused. With synaptic, I might give
it another week just in case I could sort this out. Synaptic for instance,
when it encounters a dependency, looks it up and says 'you need these
packages to resolve dependencies', shows you a list and asks if its ok to
add them to the install list. Yum just reports the failure and does a
segfault like exit, exactly as it was doing when I bailed out on fedora at
about F-8, several years ago now.
Cheers Leonard, Gene
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