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<DIV>I finally got WBEL3 installed on two machines. And I was able to use
the "YUM UPDATE" command to bring all the installed RPMs up to date. Now I
want to start installing a few additional packages, such as SWAT. </DIV>
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<DIV>I started having some problems early on with failovers and seem to have
that mostly resolved after locating some forums where they suggested some
updates to the YUM config file.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now I am trying to get a group list. I am running the command "yum
grouplist". It executes for some time. The I get the following
messages:</DIV>
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<DIV>Gathering header information files(s) from server(s)</DIV>
<DIV>Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base</DIV>
<DIV>Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates</DIV>
<DIV>Finding updated packages</DIV>
<DIV>Downloading needed headers</DIV>
<DIV>Getting groups from servers</DIV>
<DIV>No groups provided or accessabel on any server</DIV>
<DIV>Exiting</DIV>
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<DIV>What is keeping the grouplist from working properly?</DIV>
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<DIV>Now a more generic question about yum and rpm's in general. I wanted
to install the latest version of yum (I have v2.2). I couldn't figure out
how to tell yum to install a newer version of software. It just appears to
install the latest release at the same version level. So I downloaded yum
v2.4 and tried to install using rpm. A prereq for yum v2.4 is python
v2.3. So I downloaded the rpm for python v2.3 and attempted to install it
using rpm. It won't install because there is a ton of other software that
requires python to be at the current version (v2.2). How do you manage
these upgrades? I want to tell YUM/RPM to bring some of my software up to
more current versions yet it means a vast set of updates to other
software. That's ok with me but I can't see a way to tell yum just to take
care of it all. Is there an easy answer to this?</DIV>
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<DIV>I have been searching the message boards but so far haven't been able to
find an answer. Any help is greatly appreciated.</DIV>
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<DIV>Glenn Puckett</DIV>
<DIV>Lexington, KY</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>