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