I am trying to install a python package and it needs gcc.
I try to install all the packages of gcc including the compat-gcc pacakges but the depth goes on since each package requires one library or another...
i tried rpm -ivh compat* or gcc* it needs a lot of dependecies.
Is there any easy way to do this ? Is there any easy way to point and install all packages needed without having to speify everything ? I am installing from the cent os cd.
this is centos 52

Thanks in advance.


Also I notice that many pacakges are installed twice, like for example:

rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-4.1.2-42.el5
libgcc-4.1.2-42.el5

How can I remove just one of them.

Rgds

Yes. Use yum instead of the rpm command. Yum takes care of dependencies automatically. If the system is connected to internet, yum will look for packages on some online repository. If you want to use your own installation DVD as a repository, most likely you have to enable it and disable the online ones.
This is a common situation in 64-bit systems. Is this an x86_64 system architecture? Indeed you cannot have two packages with the same name installed at the same time, unless one is 32-bit and the other 64-bit. To see the difference, use the command

Unfortunately I cannot connect to the net with this machine.
The only way i can install is thru the cd....
Any ideas ? can i make yum point to the dvd ?

Yes, these are from 2 different architechtures.
thanks for that. the command revaled it.
Is there any way I can remove ond of these ?

thanks in advance.

I have not my Centos machine at hand now, but you should have a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo or something similar. If you edit it change (or add the line) with the option enabled to
If you do not want to edit yum repository configuration files, you can enable the DVD repository directly from the command line:
this will disable the currently enabled repositories (the ones online) and enabled the media DVD repo.

I tried that , nut it does not seem to work.I have pasted the output below.
I have also edited that file to include the path to the mount point of the cd for the c5-media like this:

name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///mnt/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1



where /mnt is my mounted path to the cd rom
but does not help:

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media gcc-c++
Loading "dellsysidplugin2" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* c5-media:
usage: yum [options] < grouplist, localinstall, groupinfo, localupdate, resolvedep, erase, deplist, groupremove, makecache, upgrade, provides, shell, install, whatprovides, groupinstall, update, repolist, groupupdate, info, search, check-update, list, remove, clean, grouperase >

Here is the standard media repo file.

[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5


Until you get used to things it is better to stick with the "standard" way of doing things. Once you get used to things you will understand why.

Here is the standard media repo file.

[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5


Edit: Sorry double post. ISP is acting up again.


Until you get used to things it is better to stick with the "standard" way of doing things. Once you get used to things you will understand why.

Sorry, my fault. I missed the yum command. It should be
Taking a look at the yum manual page would not hurt, anyway.

You are being sorry for my stupidity
Forgot the install option, sorry for wasting your time.

Anyway I am in this funny situation now:

I run :
yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media install gcc

And it gives me a list of processing commands before it gives me the last two lines as:

Error: Missing Dependency: glibc = 2.5-24 is needed by package glibc-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc = 2.5-24 is needed by package glibc-headers


And then I run

[root@host /]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-common-2.5-24.el5_2.2
glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2
glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2

And there are 2 because like we discussed earlier its 2 architecture packages on x64

Please advice!

Rgds