On Sunday 24 June 2012 20:43:15 Leonard den Ottolander did opine: > Hello Gene, > > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 17:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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, > > I'm not familiar with yumex, just using plain yum and rpm. Perhaps using > this non standard package manager is what is causing all your troubles. > Could it be yumex uses hard coded (or configurable) paths and you > installed a yumex for the wrong release? Where did you get that yumex > from? And why not use plain yum? You are fitting all sorts of things > onto a system that you are not familiar with, no wonder you meet a few > bumps ;-) . > > > I see what someone meant when they said centos was a stripped mostly > > server distro. > > It's a rebuild from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is based on Fedora. > Since it's an enterprise distro it provides a limited range of packages > and they are rather dated to safeguard functional, ABI and API > compatibility for a period of 5 years. > > You might want to give Fedora a try, it supports *way* more packages by > default, but I have to warn you that it used to come with the warning > that "it eats babies", in the sense that it's bleeding edge and might > have some rough edges. It also kills kittens. > > 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. > > I suppose that's just fallout from the issue you are having, things like > this should work out of the box assuming your hardware is not too exotic > or too new. But you have to be careful about which 3rd party repos you > enable, which is probably true for any distro that supports those. > > > With the > > same config files installed here on centos6, nfs is dead, no hits, no > > runs & no errors logged. > > CentOS/RHEL make you start services explicitly instead of enabling > anything by default. Are both portmap and nfs running? No clue at this time. IMO the 64 bit scene is just as broken as it was 3 years ago when I had a 64 bit version intended for AMD (Phenom quad core here) installed for about 2 hours. > > 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. > > yum != yumex . I'm quite sure one can screw up Ubuntu too, but if you're > more comfortable with Ubuntu then by any means use it. > > > 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. > > If your repos are set up correctly yum should behave in a similar way. > This is why yum was added on top of rpm. The reason yum bails out is > because it cannot find those dependencies in any of the repos as they > have incorrect versions. What is the cause of that is not clear to me > but something is insisting on looking at el5 repos and it's definitely > *not* any of the packages that come with CentOS 6 by default. > > If you are still interested in getting CentOS 6 running I suggest you do > a clean install and only start adding 3rd party repos once you have the > system up and running. If I was to do a clean install, it would sure be 32 bit. But I don't have 32 bit media on site. Does the 32 bit version have the opencascade kit? > Cheers, > Leonard. > Cheers Leonard, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> I love mankind ... It's people I hate. -- Schulz