[ale] kde question

Mon Feb 15 09:14:31 EST 2016

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On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 07:19 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:

> You don't want epel-debug or epel-source so don't edit the file.

Okay, I will stop trying.

> Selinux will block the permission change. To edit you must use sudo or become root with su.

here is partial output from ls -al on /etc/yum.repos.d:

-rw-rw-rw-.   1 root     root    957 Nov 25  2014 epel.repo
-rw-rw-rw-.   1 root     root   1056 Nov 25  2014 epel-testing.repo

My limited understanding of the terminology is that when user is listed
as rw, the user can read and write to the file. Obviously, I made the
change as root.

> 
> If rpm says kdepim is installed, run rpm -qi kdepim for info. Should get same same data from yum info kdepim.
> 
> If you still don't see it, try yum search pim

Tried both of these.  Both provide a lot of data -- in fact everything I
didn't need and not the one thing I do need:  where the hell did yum
hide the damn file.  <yum search pim> apparently reports what is
available on the repos. The list includes devel, lib, and runtime files,
along with the main file (kdepim.x86_64), which yum insists is installed
on the box.  If it were not installed, <yum remove myfile> would not
report the hoops it jumps through to erase the file and its
dependencies.

Sean

> On February 14, 2016 11:22:36 PM EST, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Jim,
> >earlier Sunday I ran yum update. Two packages were installed, 44 were
> >upgraded (including a new kernel) and 2 were removed. At the beginning
> >of that process were these lines:
> >
> >Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
> >Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> > * base: repos.mia.quadranet.com
> > * epel: reflector.westga.edu
> > * extras: ftpmirror.your.org
> > * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro
> > * rpmforge: mirror.teklinks.com
> > * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.nexcess.net
> > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.nexcess.net
> > * updates: mirror.lug.udel.edu
> >
> >After that was done I ran yum clean all and got this:
> >
> >[root at localhost kilpatms]# yum clean all
> >
> >Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
> >Cleaning repos: adobe-linux-x86_64 base epel extras nux-dextop rpmforge
> >rpmfusion-free-updates
> >              : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates updates
> >Cleaning up everything
> >Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
> >
> >Looking in /etc/yum.repos.d I see that only two epel repos are listed:
> >epel.repo and epel-testing.repo
> >
> >
> >Continuing to work through this I next tried to check the repo files
> >and
> >started by looking at epel.repo.  
> > May have found part of the problem  -- and another headache. Epel,
> >itself, is enabled, but epel-debuginfo and epel-source are not.
> >(enabled=0)
> >So I reset the perms to rw rw rw and tried to edit the file so enable
> >the two branches that were not.  Can't do it.  I get this message:
> >
> >"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to
> >the
> >file."  That message was generated by Kwrite, from the GUI.
> >
> >
> >Any clues as to why I can not edit these files?
> >
> >ran the rpm query and the output lists kdepimlibs-akonadi and pimlibs
> >-4.10 but not kdepim itself.
> >
> >Have removed and reinstalled kdepim. All 22M of it, including the
> >dependency (kdepim-libs.  But when I rerun the rpm query only the two
> >pimlib files are listed. The base kdepim is not listed, even though yum
> >reports it has just been installed.  And I can't find it anywhere. I
> >have no idea where yum has hidden this file, but it isn't in the usual
> >places.  I will close out the shell and do a logout/login.  If a
> >miracle
> >occurs and this program should magically appear I will send out a
> >BINGO!! within the next few minutes.  But I have my doubts.
> >
> >Sean
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 20:16 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> Sean,
> >> 
> >> Verify you have a working epel repo
> >> Yum check update
> >> You should see epel being checked. If not, you need to get that
> >working
> >> first. Yum remove, yum clean all, yum install. See prior in this
> >thread for
> >> link to repo rpm. Do another yum clean all and another yum check
> >update to
> >> verify epel.
> >> 
> >> Next check what kde stuff you do have
> >> Rpm -qa | grep -i kde
> >> 
> >> Look for kdepim. You need kdepim-lib as well. If you're missing
> >either, yum
> >> remove kdepim. Yum install kdepim.
> >> Logout. Login. It should show up in the menu.
> >> On Feb 14, 2016 3:31 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> >> > yum says it isn't in the repos. "Nothing to do."
> >> >
> >> > Sean
> >> >
> >> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 15:03 -0500, James Taylor wrote:
> >> > > This may be of no use at all to this discussion, but just in
> >case...
> >> > > I'm on openSUSE, and when I look at the dependencies for my
> >installed
> >> > kontact package, it shows this:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > kontact - Personal Information Manager
> >> > >
> >> > > Version:
> >> > > 4.14.10-1.3
> >> > >
> >> > > Provides:
> >> > > application()
> >> > > libkontactprivate.so.4()(64bit)
> >> > > application(kde4/Kontact.desktop)
> >> > > kde4-kontact = 4.3.0
> >> > > kontact = 4.14.10-1.3
> >> > > kontact(x86-64) = 4.14.10-1.3
> >> >
> >> >
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