[WBEL-users] Yum missing packages for WBEL4?

[Eric B.]

Hi,

I just installed WBEL4 i386_x64 remotely on my system and was trying to get 
it properly configured.  Given that it is a remote installation, I had 
someone else drop in the WBEL4 CD in the machine, and did the rest via a 
remote KVM switch, which gave me access to the console.  Since I didn't want 
to ask someone to have to drop in CD2, 3, & 4, I installed a minimal 
installation, which only requires CD1.  So far, so good.

Next, I wanted to install some of the bigger packages, like X, Gnome, 
XEmacs, etc... so I ftp'ed the yum rpm onto the server and tried to use yum. 
Here start my issues.

First issue is the default yum.conf file incorrectly lists the 
distroverpkg=redhat-release.  I updated that to be whitebox-release.  (Is 
this a packaging bug / oversight?).  So now, yum seemingly works.

However, I tried to install gnome-desktop, hoping that it would 
automatically see X as a dependency and install that as well.  But here 
start my issues.  When I try to install gnome-deskotp, I get the following 
errors:


Error: Missing Dependency: libbonobo-activation.so.4 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop
Error: Missing Dependency: libbonoboui-2.so.0 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop
Error: Missing Dependency: libbonobo-2.so.0 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnomeui-2.so.0 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnomevfs-2.so.0 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnome-2.so.0 is needed by package 
gnome-desktop

This, obviously, confuses me.  I understand that the packages are not in the 
repository, but I can't help but wonder why.  Are the repositories listed in 
the default /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.yum not complete?  Are they missing 
files?   Are there other repositories / mirrors I should be using instead 
that would contain all the required dependencies?

Barring this, is there anyway I can download the ISO images, and someone set 
them up as a local YUM repository instead?

Thanks!

Eric