I've installed 6.4 on an old T30 ThinkPad, and I'm in the midst of setting it up. I can't seem to get an rpm of Pan for it, nor even to do yum update.
Mousing around fedoraproject eventually got me to http:// rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ and from there to downloads for the free, nonfree, and epel packages (along with a caveat that tells you -- *after* you've gotten rpmfusion -- to get epel first :-{ ).
The display on the T30 has given trouble recently; while it's working, I tried with packagekit to eliminate the fusions while keeping epel (actually,EPEL; it seems to matter). Packagekit told me that I had to remove the repository configurations along with the fusions -- a thing I'd've done before if I could, whereupon I'd've started over, with EPEL first.
I approved that, then tried to refresh my sources in packagekit in order to get the fusions back. This put me through some tedious juggling of non-commutative commands.
At the end of them, despite a lot of fussing with packagekit and some logging in and out, plus a reboot or two, I was still getting error messages like these for yum install pan *and* yum update :
[root@T30 ~]# yum install pan Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink | 14 kB 00:00 * base: mirrors.serveraxis.net * c6-media: * centosplus: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu * contrib: mirror.raystedman.net * epel: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * extras: mirrors.finalasp.com * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * updates: centos.mirrors.tds.net file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/ read file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: c6-media. Please verify its path and try again [root@T30 ~]#
I should probably mention that, when I launch packagekit, go to System and then to Software Sources, everything from CentOS-6-Base to CentOS-6-Updates is already checked *except* the one for media.
Trying to fix that has been an exercise in futility -- I haven't found a way to tell it anything to use as c6-media. (It won't accept an x in the apposite box.) As root, I got to ///media on another machine as well as on the T30, and both are empty. (The other machine won't install Pan either; but it does do yum update.)
Clue, please? Pretty please??
On 11/02/2013 05:25 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I've installed 6.4 on an old T30 ThinkPad, and I'm in the midst of setting it up. I can't seem to get an rpm of Pan for it, nor even to do yum update.
Mousing around fedoraproject eventually got me to http:// rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ and from there to downloads for the free, nonfree, and epel packages (along with a caveat that tells you -- *after* you've gotten rpmfusion -- to get epel first :-{ ).
The display on the T30 has given trouble recently; while it's working, I tried with packagekit to eliminate the fusions while keeping epel (actually,EPEL; it seems to matter). Packagekit told me that I had to remove the repository configurations along with the fusions -- a thing I'd've done before if I could, whereupon I'd've started over, with EPEL first.
I approved that, then tried to refresh my sources in packagekit in order to get the fusions back. This put me through some tedious juggling of non-commutative commands.
At the end of them, despite a lot of fussing with packagekit and some logging in and out, plus a reboot or two, I was still getting error messages like these for yum install pan *and* yum update :
[root@T30 ~]# yum install pan Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink | 14 kB 00:00
- base: mirrors.serveraxis.net
- c6-media:
- centosplus: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu
- contrib: mirror.raystedman.net
- epel: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
- extras: mirrors.finalasp.com
- rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
- rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
- updates: centos.mirrors.tds.net
file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/ read file:///media/cdrecorder/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///media/cdrom/repodata/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: c6-media. Please verify its path and try again [root@T30 ~]#
I should probably mention that, when I launch packagekit, go to System and then to Software Sources, everything from CentOS-6-Base to CentOS-6-Updates is already checked *except* the one for media.
Trying to fix that has been an exercise in futility -- I haven't found a way to tell it anything to use as c6-media. (It won't accept an x in the apposite box.) As root, I got to ///media on another machine as well as on the T30, and both are empty. (The other machine won't install Pan either; but it does do yum update.)
Clue, please? Pretty please??
In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo change the enabled line to:
enabled=0
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:24:12 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: [....]
In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo change the enabled line to:
enabled=0
Bless you, Sir! And thank you immensely! That enabled yum update.
It did not enable yum install pan (nor Pan), however. So I did a cd /etc/yum.repos.d and :
[root@T30 yum.repos.d]# ls CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS- Vault.repo [root@T30 yum.repos.d]#
-- no sign of epel, even, much less rpmfusion. It looks like all the would-be installing I've done recently came to naught. <sigh>
Any more clues before I go to slogging through fedoraproject.org yet again??
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:15:17PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:24:12 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: [....]
It did not enable yum install pan (nor Pan), however. So I did a cd /etc/yum.repos.d and :
[root@T30 yum.repos.d]# ls CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS- Vault.repo [root@T30 yum.repos.d]#
-- no sign of epel, even, much less rpmfusion. It looks like all the would-be installing I've done recently came to naught. <sigh>
Yeah, the Fedora pages do sort of take you on a small runaround for a simple thing. Just do
wget http://epel.mirror.constant.com/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Once it's downloaded, run rpm ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
Then, you can use the EPEL repos.
-- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:15:17PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
wget http://epel.mirror.constant.com/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Once it's downloaded, run rpm ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
Sorry, that should be rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:46:09 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:15:17PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
wget http://epel.mirror.constant.com/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Once it's downloaded, run rpm ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
Sorry, that should be rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
I seem to have the epel rpms now, thanks; is there also a shortcut to rpmfusion??
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:09:04 +0000, Beartooth wrote: [....]
I seem to have the epel rpms now, thanks; is there also a shortcut to rpmfusion??
I just noticed that my last attempt included this :
[root@T30 ~]# yum install Pan Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kabi, presto, : refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock Loading support for CentOS kernel ABI Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.linux.duke.edu * centosplus: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * contrib: mirror.trouble-free.net * epel: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * extras: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * updates: mirror.dattobackup.com Setting up Install Process No package Pan available. Error: Nothing to do [root@T30 ~]#
Unless I'm really discombobulated, that has to mean I do have rpmfusion -- it just doesn't contain the app I need .... :-{
Pan is in repoforge http://repoforge.org/use/
On 2013-11-03, Beartooth beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:46:09 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 06:15:17PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
wget http://epel.mirror.constant.com/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Once it's downloaded, run rpm ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
Sorry, that should be rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.
I seem to have the epel rpms now, thanks; is there also a shortcut to rpmfusion??
Download the appropriate RPM from here:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Then do rpm -ivh <downloaded file> . (I think rpm supports direct http: URLs, so you should also be able to do this in one step by doing
rpm -ivh <URL to appropriate file>
If you haven't seen it already, the CentOS wiki has lots of information about third-party repositories:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
--keith
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