Installing RedHat 9 - part three
by Volker Weber
Before I continue, Kermit shall download all the updates first:
mkdir -p /root/redhat/9.0/updates
rsync -arz ftp.tuwien.ac.at::redhat/updates/9/en/os/i386/ /root/redhat/9.0/updates/i386
rsync -arz ftp.tuwien.ac.at::redhat/updates/9/en/os/i586/ /root/redhat/9.0/updates/i586
rsync -arz ftp.tuwien.ac.at::redhat/updates/9/en/os/i686/ /root/redhat/9.0/updates/i686
That's what it looks like, first the CD images and then the updates:
Then I will need to go into those directories and install them ...
Comments
Which in fact is very easy. You start out at /i686 and give the command "rpm -Fvh *.rpm". This most likely will result in an error message for afair there's already an update for glibc which in turn complains about some missing files. These can be found in /i386 so the command will look like "rpm -Fvh *.rpm ../i386/glibc-common*.rpm" (you might have to add some other glibc components as well). Next, change to i386 and give "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" as well. You're done :)
The three posts about Redhat don't tell us WHY you now install Redhat
Do I need to explain that? Hmmh. Because I can?
I try to be somewhat fluent in many areas, Linux being one of them. I always lean towards RedHat since I am somewhat more at home with it then the other distributions. I have installed and run a bunch of servers on them, even some rather complicated setups with portal framework and I like the robustness and low hardware requirements. I have an in-house Jabber server on Redhat 8 that is zero maintenance. Took three hours to build - that's it.
Does that answer the question?
[root@kermit i386]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm
warning: balsa-2.0.6-2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
error: Failed dependencies:
gettext is needed by mutt-1.4.1-1
[root@kermit i386]# rm mutt-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm
rm: remove regular file `mutt-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm'? y
Just to make sure this won't happen again at future updates, you might want to consider "rpm -e mutt" as well. That's if you don't intend to use mutt, of course.
And on a sidenote: To get rid of these annoying "NOKEY" messages, just give a "rpm --install /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY" on the command line ...
