No 'perl-gd' and 'gd-devel' in yum

doublealice · 06-28-2011, 11:37 AM

Hi, I am going to install perl GD. But when I run yum, it prompted no such packages.

Code:

# yum install perl-GD
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
No package perl-GD available.
Error: Nothing to do
# yum install gd-devel
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
No package gd-devel available.
Error: Nothing to do

I am using an Redhat EL6 with 2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.x86_64.

May I know if these two packages were merged or replaced by others? How can I get them installed? Thank you for all your help.

Alice

knudfl · 06-28-2011, 11:58 AM

Looks like you are using Redhat EL 6 : Please ask Redhat, how to set up
all sections of the Redhat repos.

The packages 'perl-GD' and 'gd-devel' are in the "Redhat repo".

(( EPEL (6) is the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" repo:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ))

..

doublealice · 06-28-2011, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Looks like you are using Redhat EL 6 : Please ask Redhat, how to set up
all sections of the Redhat repos.

The packages 'perl-GD' and 'gd-devel' are in the "Redhat repo".

(( EPEL (6) is the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" repo:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ))

..

Thanks Knudfl. Yes, I am using Redhat EL6. I looked for those packages in EPEL when I couldn't get them from yum. Thanks for correction. Then I will go to Rdehat repo and see if they are there.

fl0 · 06-28-2011, 01:29 PM

Hi,

you need to activate the "RHEL Server Optional" software channel on your system in the rhn .

rgds flo

doublealice · 06-28-2011, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fl0

Hi,

you need to activate the "RHEL Server Optional" software channel on your system in the rhn .

rgds flo

I am not very clear on how to 'activate the RHEL Server Optional software channel. Can you clarify?

I used CPAN to install GD, but it said:

Code:

  CPAN.pm: Going to build L/LD/LDS/GD-2.46.tar.gz

**UNRECOVERABLE ERROR**
Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Please install libgd 2.0.28 or higher.
If you want to try to compile anyway, please rerun this script with the option --ignore_missing_gd.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site]
  LDS/GD-2.46.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Failed during this command:
 LDS/GD-2.46.tar.gz                           : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 512

I downloaded and tried to installed libgd2-2.0.33-2_11.el6.x86_64.rpm manually. However, it conflicts with gd-2.0.35 which was already installed by yum.

Code:

# rpm -ivh libgd2-2.0.33-2_11.el6.x86_64.rpm 
warning: libgd2-2.0.33-2_11.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66534c2b: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
	file /usr/lib64/libgd.so.2.0.0 from install of libgd2-2.0.33-2_11.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package gd-2.0.35-10.el6.x86_64

I guess probably it needs libgd2-2.0.35, but no el6.x86_64.rpm available. I don't know what I can do now.

fl0 · 06-29-2011, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doublealice

I am not very clear on how to 'activate the RHEL Server Optional software channel. Can you clarify?

when your system is registred in the rhn (Red Hat Network), you can login to rhn.redhat.com , and activate the software channel on your system.

rgds flo