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Re: [ecs] Linux/CDROM: fileutils problem Ingo Pakleppa 11 Oct 2003 23:35:27 -0700

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fileutils and textutils are two older packages that have been merged
into a new package called coreutils. For compatibility reasons, the
coreutils rpm is still marked as providing fileutils and textutils.
RedHat actually rolled a few more into the same package.

These two packages are among the very basic utilities that every Linux
system needs. Among others, rm, pwd, tail, chown, chgrp, and a gazillion
other critically important utilities are in this package.

The way to find out such things is with the command

rpm -q --whatprovides fileutils

(this assumes that you have a RedHat 9 system, and that the package you
are interested in is already installed on your development system).

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 08:47, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> OK - Here's what I have entered so far:
> 
> mkdir /cdrom
> 
> cd /cdrom
> 
> rpm --initdb --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --root /cdrom
> 
> rpm --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --root /cdrom --install --file 
> /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.20-6.i586.rpm
> warning: /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.20-6.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: 
> NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          fileutils is needed by kernel-2.4.20-6
>          modutils >= 2.4.18 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-6
>          initscripts >= 5.83 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-6
>          mkinitrd >= 3.2.6 is needed by kernel-2.4.20-6
>          /bin/sh is needed by kernel-2.4.20-6
> 
> So I apparently need something called "fileutils" (among others).
> But no such file (with *any* extension) exists on any of my RH9 CDs.
> And this package is apparently *not* installed on my system:
>          rpm -qR fileutils
>                  package fileutils is not installed
> 
> So how can my kernel rpm "need" fileutils ?
> 
> And how does one translate a dependency package name to a specific  .RPM file ?
> For example, how do I find the .RPM for "/bin/sh" ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Gilmore
> http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com

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