[WBEL-users] Yum missing packages for WBEL4?

[Jon]

Hi,

I've used WBEL4 for some time and its very good. I have now on some 
boxes installed UbuntuLinux and what impresses me is that you only need 
one cd to install it and the rest is downloaded from the Internet. Maybe 
you can download it and dd it to the hdd.

Maybe this is not what you want but it's an idea

Best Regards -Jon

Eric B. said the following on 2005-11-23 03:26:
> 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
>
>
>
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