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 -- "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 just thought of something funny...your mother. - Cheech Marin