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Hello, I have a disk of all the rpms (just the rpms) of RH Ent. 5.1. I needed to intall some packages from it. For that I created a local ...
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    [SOLVED] Yum not finding/listing installed rpms - missing dependency

    Hello,

    I have a disk of all the rpms (just the rpms) of RH Ent. 5.1. I needed to intall some packages from it. For that I created a local repository. Following is what I did:

    1. mounted DVD in /media
    2. Issued createrepo on /media (Now the packages are in /media/mycdrom/RHE5Rpms and the repodata is in /media)
    3. I added the following in the /etc/yum.conf
    [MyPackages]
    name=Packs
    baseurl=file:///media
    enabled=1

    Now when I try to install, for example, qt4-devel, it can resolve the dependencies for one level. For example, it resolves libpng-devel (which is needed by qt4-devel), but it fails to resolve libpng (which is needed by libpng-devel). But libpng package is both available in the DVD and is already installed on the machine. Following is the tail of error messages I get after issuing the command 'yum install qt4-devel'

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    Error: Missing Dependency: libpng = 2:1.2.10-7 is needed by package libpng-devel
    Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 6.5.1-7.2.el5 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel
    Error: Missing Dependency: libX11 = 1.0.3-8.el5 is needed by package libX11-devel
    Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 6.5.1-7.2.el5 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel
    Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 is needed by package freetype-devel

    All the above packages are available through the DVD and already installed on the machine.

    As suggested by several forums I issued 'yum clean all' and 'rpm -rebuilddb'. But I still get the same error after doing so.

    If anybody knows what it is, please let me know.

    If any of the above is not clear, please let me know. I shall try to explain more clearly.

    Thanks

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    Was there a media.repo file located on the DVD when you browse it if so then I would copy that into the yum.repos.d directory then disable the repos that require an internet connection and enable the media.repo and then do the "yum install <yourpackage>" . Works for Fedora and also When I ran RHEL 3 I used the add/remove packages to install from media.

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    Thats my mistake. I had the Red Hat Enterprise 5.0 rpms in my repository but trying to update 5.1 machine. The version number for most of the packages were same/similar which cheated my eyes.

    Sorry about the confusion and thanks guys for your support

    Thanks

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