How to install yum-utils rhel5

mzver · 01-31-2014, 11:14 AM

I was trying to clean up old kernels to make space on the /boot filesystem. When getting ready to remove the old kernel, I received "There are unfinisthed transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package."

Unfortunately, I did a yum search yum, and there is not a yum-utils package.
How do I get the correct yum-utils pacakage installed?

myatthu · 01-31-2014, 11:24 AM

Do you try to list the install yum related packages?

Code:

rpm -qa yum*

You can search yum-utils by specific as below

Code:

yum search yum-utils

Otherwise, your yum repo setup is not correct or unreachable to repo servers. what is the error output?

mzver · 01-31-2014, 11:31 AM

When I did a

Code:

yum search yum-utils

, the result was:
================== Matched: yum-utils ===========================================
yum-security.noarch : Yum plugin to enable security filters

When I entered

Code:

rpm -qa yum*

, the result was:
yum-security-1.1.16-21.0.1.el5
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-4.el5
yum-updatesd-0.9-5.el5
yum-3.2.22-40.0.1.el5

myatthu · 01-31-2014, 11:42 AM

You need to install since it is not install. Yum repo looks good

Code:

yum install yum-utils

mzver · 01-31-2014, 11:45 AM

That's the problem I am having. When I enter

Code:

yum install yum-utils

, I get "no packagae yum-utils avaialable.

[root@lumportal2 ~]# yum install yum-utils
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
No package yum-utils available.
Nothing to do
[root@lumportal2 ~]#

myatthu · 01-31-2014, 11:49 AM

You need to check your repo file then at /etc/yum.repos.d/xxx.repo

For example, you need to make sure enabled=1

Code:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
priority=10
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

After enable the repositories, you can try again with same command

John VV · 01-31-2014, 12:30 PM

please post the output of this command

Code:

yum repolist all

( you have something that is REQUIRED turned off , that needs to be turned on .like the BASE repo )

and the output of this

Code:

cat /etc/redhat-release

mzver · 01-31-2014, 01:20 PM

Thank you! I was able to get yum-utils package installed.
I had to edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el15.repo.rpmnew-disabled and then edit the el_u5_base to be enabled.
Again, thank you for all your help.

myatthu · 01-31-2014, 06:09 PM

Good to hear that your problem is settle

John VV · 01-31-2014, 06:53 PM

fixed ?

Quote:

/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el15.repo.rpmnew-disabled

that ".rpmnew" part meant that it is old and a software update UPDATED to use the correct one
but i have NEVER heard of this one "public-yum-el15 "